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Coherent nanosecond pulses with high peak powers in the 2μm region are in demand for applications such as LIDAR and atmospheric sensing. In this paper we present a PM pulsed laser based on a MOPA configuration providing up to 50W of peak power. The 2039nm seed laser is a pre-amplified DFB-FBG laser with <10kHz linewidth. Nanosecond pulses produced by an acousto-optic modulator are amplified by a single booster stage amplifier using a double clad PM thulium-doped fiber. We demonstrate >10W of output peak power for 50ns pulses over repetition rates from 50kHz to 2MHz. For 4-μs pulses and a repetition rate of 50kHz, our MOPA delivers 28μJ of pulse energy.
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Wiktor T. Walasik, Robert E. Tench, Alexandre Amavigan, Jean-Marc Delavaux, Andre Van Rynbah, "2-μm 5-kHz PM DFB-FBG fiber seed laser in ns pulsed Tm-doped fiber amplifier," Proc. SPIE 11739, Fiber Optic Sensors and Applications XVII, 1173909 (12 April 2021); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2585926