Title :
High average power, high repetition rate, picosecond pulsed fiber master oscillator power amplifier source seeded by a gain-switched laser diode at 1060 nm
Author :
Dupriez, P. ; Piper, A. ; Malinowski, A. ; Sahu, J.K. ; Ibsen, M. ; Thomsen, B.C. ; Jeong, Y. ; Hickey, L.M.B. ; Zervas, M.N. ; Nilsson, J. ; Richardson, D.J.
Author_Institution :
Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Univ. of Southampton, UK
fDate :
5/1/2006 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
We demonstrate a pulsed ytterbium-doped fiber master-oscillator power amplifier source at 1060 nm producing over 300 W of average power in 20-ps pulses at 1-GHz repetition rate. The pulses generated by a gain-switched diode were compressed by a chirped fiber Bragg grating and amplified without any distortion with excellent spectral quality. This fiber master oscillator power amplifier system offers versatility and potential for further power scaling.
Keywords :
Bragg gratings; chirp modulation; optical communication equipment; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre communication; optical fibres; optical pulse compression; optical pulse generation; semiconductor lasers; ytterbium; 1 GHz; 1060 nm; 20 ps; chirped fiber Bragg grating; fiber master oscillator power amplifier; gain-switched diode; high average power amplifier source; high repetition rate power amplifier; optical pulse generation; picosecond pulsed power amplifier; power scaling; spectral quality; ytterbium-doped fiber amplifier; Diode lasers; Distributed feedback devices; Fiber lasers; High power amplifiers; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Oscillators; Power lasers; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse modulation; Gain-switched laser diode; Yb-doped fiber amplifiers (YDFAs); picosecond pulses; self-phase modulation (SPM);
Journal_Title :
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LPT.2006.873486
