• DocumentCode
    1654760
  • Title

    High-energy, in-band, cladding-pumped erbium doped pulsed fiber lasers

  • Author

    Lim, Ee-Leong ; Alam, Shaif-ul ; Richardson, David J.

  • Author_Institution
    Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Univ. of Southampton, Southampton, UK
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate a high-energy, in-band, cladding-pumped MOPA at 1563nm that is >;1.5 times more efficient than the equivalent core pumped MOPA variant. A maximum pulse energy of 1.4mJ was obtained for 159ns pulses with M2≈1.5.
  • Keywords
    erbium; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre cladding; optical pumping; MOPA; cladding-pumped fiber lasers; erbium doped pulsed fiber lasers; high-energy fiber lasers; in-band fiber lasers; master oscillator power amplifier; time 159 ns; wavelength 1563 nm; Erbium; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Laser excitation; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber couplers; Pump lasers; Wavelength division multiplexing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-1839-6
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6325705
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1654760