Experimental research on secondary pulsation in an all-fiber pulsed amplifier

Author

Weiran, Li ; Kuiyuan, Tao ; Zhi, Wang ; Yan-ge, Liu

Author_Institution

Key Laboratory of Opto-Electronic Information and Technology, Ministry of Education, Institute of Modern Optics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China

Volume

2009-Supplement

fYear

2009

fDate

2-6 Nov. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

The experimental study on an all-fiber laser pulse amplifier system using homemade double-cladding Yb-doped fibers as gain media is presented. Secondary pulse phenomenon produced in the pulse amplifier system is analyzed and investigated. We find that the phenomenon depends a lot on the quality of splicing between different fibers and the amplification multiple. By controlling the pump power and amplification multiples of the amplifier and trying different splicing parameters, we can get stable high power pulse lasing output. Finally, using the Yb-doped double-cladding fiber(YDCF) and master oscillation power amplification (MOPA) techniques, a stable all-fiber pulse amplification system is obtained, with lasing wavelength at 1064 nm, 20 ns line-width pulses, average power of 2.4W and repetition rate of 50kHz.

Keywords

Fiber lasers; Laser theory; Optical amplifiers; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber communication; Optical pulses; Power lasers; Pulse amplifiers; Pump lasers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Yb3+-doped double-clad fiber; fiber amplifier; laser technique; pulse;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications and Photonics Conference and Exhibition (ACP), 2009 Asia

Conference_Location

Shanghai, China

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-877-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-877-3

Type

conf

Filename

5405519