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

Volume

18

Issue

9

fYear

2006

fDate

5/1/2006 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1013

Lastpage

1015

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);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2006.873486

Filename

1621261