160 W average power single-polarization, nanosecond pulses generation from diode-seeded thulium-doped all fiber MOPA system

Hongxing Shi; Jiang Liu; Kun Liu; Fangzhou Tan; Pu Wang

doi:10.1117/12.2079343

4 March 2015 160 W average power single-polarization, nanosecond pulses generation from diode-seeded thulium-doped all fiber MOPA system

Hongxing Shi, Jiang Liu, Kun Liu, Fangzhou Tan, Pu Wang

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Proceedings Volume 9344, Fiber Lasers XII: Technology, Systems, and Applications; 93441O (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2079343
Event: SPIE LASE, 2015, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

We demonstrate high average power all-fiber single-polarization thulium(Tm)-doped nanosecond laser based on all-fiber master-oscillator power-amplifier (MOPA).The seed source employed is a directly modulated discrete-mode (DM) diode at 2 μm with pulse width of 15.8 ns and tunable repetition rate range of 400 kHz to 4 MHz. The pulse duration reduced to 6 ns as the gain reshaping during amplification. The MOPA yields 160 W maximum average powers at 4 MHz repetition with 6 ns pulse width, with respect to pulse energy of 40 μJ and peak-power of 6.7 kW. The slope efficiency for the last stage of PM LMA Tm-doped fiber amplifier was 48.8% with respect to launched pump power. The polarization extinction ratio (PER) of system measured at maximum output power is beyond 15 dB. The beam quality factor M² was measured to be 1.5 at average output power of 160 W. To the best of our knowledge, this is the highest average power 2 μm nanosecond pulses laser from laser diode seeded all-fiber MOPA systems to date.

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Hongxing Shi, Jiang Liu, Kun Liu, Fangzhou Tan, and Pu Wang "160 W average power single-polarization, nanosecond pulses generation from diode-seeded thulium-doped all fiber MOPA system", Proc. SPIE 9344, Fiber Lasers XII: Technology, Systems, and Applications, 93441O (4 March 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2079343

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