Title :
High Energy and High Peak Power Nanosecond Pulses Generated by Fiber Amplifier
Author :
Haitao Zhang ; Xinglai Shen ; Dan Chen ; Chao Zheng ; Ping Yan ; Mali Gong
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Precision Instrum., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China
Abstract :
Generation of nanosecond pulses with 55-mJ energy and 4.8-MW peak power are demonstrated in a multistage fiber amplifier system, which is seeded with 10-nm broadband pulses from a superluminescence diode. The pulses are at low repetition of 10 Hz and with width of 10 ns. High energy and high peak power for nanosecond pulses are obtained simultaneously from fiber amplifier. In particular, the peak power is at least two times the previous peak power for nanosecond pulses.
Keywords :
optical fibre amplifiers; optical pulse generation; superluminescent diodes; ytterbium; broadband pulses; energy 55 mJ; high energy nanosecond pulses; high peak power nanosecond pulses; multistage fiber amplifier system; nanosecond pulse generation; power 4.8 MW; superluminescence diode; time 10 ns; wavelength 10 nm; Bandwidth; Fiber lasers; Laser beams; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber networks; Optical fiber polarization; Scattering; Yb-doped fiber amplifier; broadband seed; high energy; high peak power;
Journal_Title :
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LPT.2014.2352864
