Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 13, Issue 1, 011401(2015)

Time-division-multiplexing laser seeded amplification in a tapered amplifier

Wei Yang1,2,3, Lin Zhou1,2, Shitong Long1,2,3, Wencui Peng1,2,3, Jin Wang1,2, and Mingsheng Zhan1,2
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  • 1State Key Laboratory of Magnetic and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Wuhan 430071, China
  • 2Center for Cold Atom Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China
  • 3University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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    We demonstrate time-division-multiplexing (TDM) laser seeded optical amplification in a diode laser amplifier. With an acousto-optic modulator we combine two seeding beams of different frequencies and inject them alternately in the time domain into the tapered amplifier (TA) chip at a switching speed of 200 ns. The output high-power dual frequency components from the TA are time separated. The TDM seeded TA works safely and efficiently, which is useful for compact precision measurement instruments such as optical clocks and atom interferometers.

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    Wei Yang, Lin Zhou, Shitong Long, Wencui Peng, Jin Wang, Mingsheng Zhan, "Time-division-multiplexing laser seeded amplification in a tapered amplifier," Chin. Opt. Lett. 13, 011401 (2015)

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    Paper Information

    Category: Lasers and Laser Optics

    Received: Aug. 18, 2014

    Accepted: Nov. 14, 2014

    Published Online: Jan. 4, 2015

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    DOI:10.3788/col201513.011401

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