Robust eye-safe pulsed fiber laser source for 3D ladar applications

Lars G. Holmen; Gunnar Rustad; Magnus W. Haakestad

doi:10.1117/12.2278397

5 October 2017 Robust eye-safe pulsed fiber laser source for 3D ladar applications

Lars G. Holmen, Gunnar Rustad, Magnus W. Haakestad

Proceedings Volume 10434, Electro-Optical Remote Sensing XI; 104340N (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2278397
Event: SPIE Security + Defence, 2017, Warsaw, Poland

Abstract

We present a pulsed all-fiber Er/Yb-doped master oscillator power amplifier at 1.55 μm wavelength. In a simple two-stage amplifier design, the source delivers 140 μJ pulses at 25 kHz and 50 kHz pulse repetition frequency, and 100 μJ at 100 kHz, with pulse durations of ∼10 ns and beam quality of M² = 1.3. The MOPA is suitable as a robust field source for ladar applications, and has been tested in an in-house developed scanning ladar system.

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Lars G. Holmen, Gunnar Rustad, and Magnus W. Haakestad "Robust eye-safe pulsed fiber laser source for 3D ladar applications", Proc. SPIE 10434, Electro-Optical Remote Sensing XI, 104340N (5 October 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2278397

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