A compact pulsed 3 μm fiber laser

Author

Wang, L. ; Jain, R.K.

Author_Institution

Center for High Technol. Mater., New Mexico Univ., Albuquerque, NM, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2003

fDate

27-28 Oct. 2003

Firstpage

1017

Abstract

In this paper, we report pulsed-to-CW power enhancement factors of ∼22 and pulse energies of 0.4 μJ for pulsed operation of a 3 μm Er: ZBLAN fiber laser, achieved by modulating the Q-factor of the cavity by means of an integrated LiTaO₃ waveguide electro-optics light deflector at repetition rates as high as 60 KHz.

Keywords

Q-factor; Q-switching; aluminium compounds; barium compounds; electro-optical deflectors; electro-optical modulation; erbium; fibre lasers; high-speed optical techniques; integrated optics; lanthanum compounds; laser cavity resonators; lithium compounds; optical waveguides; sodium compounds; tantalum compounds; zirconium compounds; 0.4 muJ; 3 micron; Er: ZBLAN fiber laser; LiTaO₃; LiTaO₃ waveguide; Q-factor modulation; ZBLAN:Er; ZrF4-BaF2-LaF3-AlF3-NaF:Er; electro-optics light deflector; laser cavity; power enhancement factor; pulse energy; pulsed fiber laser; Electrooptic modulators; Erbium; Fiber lasers; Lasers and electrooptics; Optical modulation; Optical pulses; Power lasers; Pulse modulation; Q factor; Waveguide lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2003. LEOS 2003. The 16th Annual Meeting of the IEEE

ISSN

1092-8081

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7888-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.2003.1253153

Filename

1253153