Title :
9-Watt cw swept-wavelength diode-oscillator Yb-fiber-amplifier system
Author :
Gross, P. ; Adhimoolam, B. ; Klein, M.E. ; Lindsay, I.D. ; Hsu, K. ; Boller, K.-J.
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Sci. & Technol., Univ. of Twente, Enschede
Abstract :
We describe a 1080-nm diode master oscillator utilizing a fiber Fabry-Perot tunable filter with subsequent fiber amplification to 9 W output power. 25 MHz linewidth and 5 THz tuning in less than 1 ms were achieved.
Keywords :
Fabry-Perot resonators; laser beams; laser cavity resonators; laser tuning; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre filters; optical parametric oscillators; ytterbium; JkJk:Yb; OPO; diode master oscillator; fiber Fabry-Perot tunable filter; fiber-amplifier system; laser linewidth; laser tuning; power 9 W; swept-wavelength diode-oscillator; wavelength 1080 nm; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber polarization; Oscillators; Power amplifiers; Power generation; Tuning; (060.2320) Fiber optics amplifiers and oscillators; (140.3600) Lasers, tunable; (140.5960) Semiconductor lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Long Beach, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-813-1
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2006.4627606
