Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 9, Issue 7, 071401(2011)
High-powered millijoule pulse energy Tm3+-doped fiber amplifier at 2.05 \mu m
A high-powered millijoule pulse energy Tm3+-doped fiber amplifier seeded with a Q-switched operation of Tm (4 at.-%), Ho (0.4 at.-%):YVO4 laser is reported. The output characteristics of the amplified laser are studied at the coupled powers of 0.266, 1.24, and 2.65 W. Maximum output power up to 15.7 W is at 10-kHz repetition rate. Nonlinear effects are not observed from the emitting spectrum and the full-width at half-maximum (FWHM) of the pulse duration is reduced from 40.1 to 25.9 ns at 1.57-mJ pulse energy. The beam quality factor M2x=1.9\pm 0.03, M2y=2.1\pm 0.02 at the output power of 14.5 W is measured using the traveling knife-edge method.
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Renlai Zhou, Youlun Ju, Yunjun Zhang, Yuezhu Wang, "High-powered millijoule pulse energy Tm3+-doped fiber amplifier at 2.05 \mu m," Chin. Opt. Lett. 9, 071401 (2011)
Category: Lasers and Laser Optics
Received: Dec. 14, 2010
Accepted: Mar. 3, 2011
Published Online: May. 18, 2011
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