DocumentCode
1131094
Title
Coherent combining of Q-switched fibre lasers
Author
Sabourdy, D. ; Desfarges-Berthelemot, A. ; Kermène, V. ; Barthélémy, A.
Author_Institution
Inst. de Recherche en Commun. Opt.s et Microondes, UMR CNRS, Limoges, France
Volume
40
Issue
20
fYear
2004
Firstpage
1254
Lastpage
1255
Abstract
The power rising of an actively Q-switched erbium-doped fibre laser by using two coupled cavities with amplifying fibres in an interferometer configuration is reported. This study shows that the pulse peak power obtained is 1.7 higher than in a case of a unique laser. This concept brings some novel perspectives for scaling the output peak power of singlemode Q-switched fibre lasers.
Keywords
Mach-Zehnder interferometers; Q-switching; erbium; fibre lasers; laser cavity resonators; optical fibre amplifiers; optical pulse generation; Mach-Zehnder interferometers; Q-switched erbium-doped fibre laser; amplifying fibres; coherent combining method; coupled cavities; laser cavity resonators; laser coherence; optical pulse generation; pulse peak power scaling;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Electronics Letters
Publisher
iet
ISSN
0013-5194
Type
jour
DOI
10.1049/el:20046111
Filename
1342134
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