Title :
Passive Q-switching of an erbium fiber laser using nonlinear reflection from a liquefying gallium mirror
Author :
Petropoulos, P. ; Richardson, D.J. ; Dhanjal, Surinder ; Zheludev, Nikolay I.
Author_Institution :
Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Southampton Univ., UK
Abstract :
Summary form only given. It is well known that the incorporation of a suitably fast nonlinear element within a laser system can lead to Q-switched operation. For Q-switching of a typical fiber laser response times of the order of 10 ns to 1 /spl mu/s are required and are readily obtained for practical system parameters using a liquefying gallium nonlinearity (LGN). In this paper we describe a Q-switched Er-doped fiber laser based on the use of an LGN mirror.
Keywords :
Q-switching; erbium; fibre lasers; laser mirrors; light reflection; nonlinear optics; 10 ns to 1 mus; Ga; LGN laser mirror; Q-switched Er-doped fiber laser; Q-switched operation; erbium fiber laser; liquefying gallium mirror; liquefying gallium nonlinearity; nonlinear reflection; passive Q-switching; practical system parameters; suitably fast nonlinear element; typical fiber laser response times; Acoustic pulses; Erbium; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Fiber nonlinear optics; Lasers and Electro-Optics Society; Optical reflection; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse shaping methods; Shape; Space vector pulse width modulation;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1998. CLEO 98. Technical Digest. Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-339-0
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.1998.675891
