Title :
High-brightness, pulsed, cladding-pumped Raman fiber source at 1660 nm
Author :
Codemard, C.A. ; Sahu, J.K. ; Nilsson, J.
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Southampton, Southampton
Abstract :
We report the first demonstration of a pulsed single-stage cladding-pumped Raman fiber source which is capable of delivering up to 10muJ diffraction-limited pulses at 1660 nm. The pulses are 620 ns long with a peak power near 16 W and the pump to signal conversion efficiency is about 36 %.
Keywords :
Raman lasers; fibre lasers; optical fibre cladding; optical pumping; Raman lasers; cladding-pumped Raman fiber source; diffraction-limited pulses; fibre lasers; pump to signal conversion efficiency; time 620 ns; wavelength 1660 nm; Doped fiber amplifiers; Fiber lasers; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical pulse shaping; Optical pulses; Optical pumping; Optical saturation; Pulse amplifiers; Pump lasers; Stimulated emission;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007. CLEO 2007. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-834-6
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2007.4453044
