A 43-W C-band tunable narrow-linewidth erbium-ytterbium codoped large-core fiber laser

Author

Yoonchan Jeong ; Alegria, C. ; Sahu, J.K. ; Fu, L. ; Ibsen, M. ; Codemard, C. ; Mokhtar, M.R. ; Nilsson, J.

Author_Institution

Optoelectronics Res. Centre, Univ. of Southampton, UK

Volume

16

Issue

3

fYear

2004

fDate

3/1/2004 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

756

Lastpage

758

Abstract

The authors report a widely tunable and highly efficient cladding-pumped erbium-ytterbium codoped large-core fiber laser, generating up to 43 W of output power at /spl sim/1.5 μm with a narrow linewidth (0.16-nm full-width at half-maximum) and a good beam quality (M²<1.7). By use of a tunable narrow-band fiber Bragg grating, the laser wavelength was tuned from 1532 to 1567 nm, limited upwards by the tuning range of the fiber grating. The overall slope efficiency was 32% with respect to launched pump power.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; erbium; fibre lasers; laser beams; laser tuning; optical fibre cladding; optical pumping; spectral line narrowing; ytterbium; 1532 to 1567 nm; 32 percent; 43 W; C-band tunable fiber laser; cladding-pumped fiber laser; erbium-ytterbium codoped fiber laser; fiber grating; large-core fiber laser; laser wavelength; narrow-linewidth fiber laser; slope efficiency; tunable narrow-band fiber Bragg grating; Bragg gratings; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Fiber gratings; Laser beams; Laser tuning; Narrowband; Power generation; Power lasers; Pump lasers; Tunable circuits and devices;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2004.823710

Filename

1269785