Chinese Journal of Lasers, Volume. 39, Issue 8, 802004(2012)
2 μm Thulium-Doped Ultrafast All-Fiber Laser with Watts-Level Average Output Power
A high-power 2.0 μm thulium-doped ultrafast all-fiber master oscillator power amplifier (MOPA) is developed. The seed source is a thulium-doped double-clad single-mode fiber laser passively mode-locked by a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror (SESAM). It produces about 15 mW average output power with 10.4 MHz repetition rate. A thulium-doped all-fiber amplifier is used to boost average output power to 1.1 W, corresponding to the single pulse energy of 105 nJ. The pulse width is measured to be 9 ps, the center wavelength and the spectral bandwidth are 1963 nm and 0.5 nm respectively. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report for all-fiber thulium-doped ultrafast fiber laser with watts-level average output power.
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Liu Jiang, Wang Pu. 2 μm Thulium-Doped Ultrafast All-Fiber Laser with Watts-Level Average Output Power[J]. Chinese Journal of Lasers, 2012, 39(8): 802004
Category: Laser physics
Received: Mar. 12, 2012
Accepted: --
Published Online: Jun. 11, 2012
The Author Email: Jiang Liu (liujiang@emails.bjut.edu.cn)