High-power continuous-wave cascade-oscillation at 3 μm and 2 μm with a holmium-doped fiber laser pumped by a fiber Raman laser

Author

Sumiyoshi, Tetsumi ; Sekita, Hitoshi

Author_Institution

Opto-Electron. & High Frequency Device Res. Labs., NEC Corp., Kawasaki, Japan

Volume

1

fYear

1998

fDate

1-4 Dec 1998

Firstpage

51

Abstract

We have successfully used a fiber Raman laser at 1.15 μm to enhance the output power of a previously demonstrated Ho³⁺-doped fiber laser that simultaneously oscillates at 3 μm and 2 μm. To our best knowledge, the output power of 1.6 W ( 840 mW at 3 μm and 770 mW at 2 μm) obtained in this experiment is higher than any previously reported for a fluoride-glass fiber laser oscillating in the mid-infrared regions

Keywords

Raman lasers; fibre lasers; holmium; infrared sources; laser transitions; optical pumping; 1.15 mum; 1.6 W; 2 mum; 3 mum; 770 mW; 840 mW; Ho³⁺-doped fiber laser; fiber Raman laser; fluoride-glass fiber laser; high-power continuous-wave cascade-oscillation; holmium-doped fiber laser; laser pumping; mid-infrared region; Fiber lasers; Glass; Laser excitation; Laser transitions; National electric code; Optical fiber couplers; Power generation; Power lasers; Pump lasers; Quantum cascade lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, 1998. LEOS '98. IEEE

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4947-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.1998.737727

Filename

737727