Single frequency Tm-doped fibre DBR laser at 1943 nm

Author

Zhang, Z. ; Boyland, A.J. ; Sahu, J.K. ; Clarkson, W.A. ; Ibsen, M.

Author_Institution

Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Univ. of Southampton, Southampton, UK

fYear

2009

fDate

14-19 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

Stable single frequency two-micron lasers are attractive sources for numerous application areas, including spectroscopy, gas sensing and nonlinear frequency conversion. In this paper we report on a Tm-doped silica fibre laser, based on a short cavity distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) design, employed in a simple master- oscillator power-amplifier configuration to produce 2.8 W of stable, linearly-polarised single-frequency output at 1943 nm.

Keywords

distributed Bragg reflector lasers; fibre lasers; fibre DBR laser; gas sensing; linearly-polarised single-frequency output; master-oscillator power-amplifier; nonlinear frequency conversion; power 2.8 W; short cavity distributed Bragg reflector design; spectroscopy; wavelength 1943 nm; Distributed Bragg reflectors; Fiber lasers; Frequency conversion; Gas lasers; Laser stability; Optical design; Oscillators; Power lasers; Silicon compounds; Spectroscopy;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics 2009 and the European Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEO Europe - EQEC 2009. European Conference on

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4079-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4080-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE-EQEC.2009.5194697

Filename

5194697