Fiber-based laser MOPA transmitter packaging for space environment

Mark Stephen; Anthony Yu; Jeffrey Chen; Kenji Numata; Stewart Wu; Brayler Gonzales; Lawrence Han; Molly Fahey; Michael Plants; Michael Rodriguez; Graham Allan; James Abshire; Jeffrey Nicholson; Anand Hariharan; William Mamakos; Brian Bean

doi:10.1117/12.2290720

20 February 2018 Fiber-based laser MOPA transmitter packaging for space environment

Mark Stephen, Anthony Yu, Jeffrey Chen, Kenji Numata, Stewart Wu, Brayler Gonzales, Lawrence Han, Molly Fahey, Michael Plants, Michael Rodriguez, Graham Allan, James Abshire, Jeffrey Nicholson, Anand Hariharan, William Mamakos, Brian Bean

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Proceedings Volume 10513, Components and Packaging for Laser Systems IV; 1051308 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2290720
Event: SPIE LASE, 2018, San Francisco, California, United States

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NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center has been developing lidar to remotely measure CO₂ and CH₄ in the Earth’s atmosphere. The ultimate goal is to make space-based satellite measurements with global coverage. We are working on maturing the technology readiness of a fiber-based, 1.57-micron wavelength laser transmitter designed for use in atmospheric CO₂ remote-sensing. To this end, we are building a ruggedized prototype to demonstrate the required power and performance and survive the required environment.

We are building a fiber-based master oscillator power amplifier (MOPA) laser transmitter architecture. The laser is a wavelength-locked, single frequency, externally modulated DBR operating at 1.57-micron followed by erbium-doped fiber amplifiers. The last amplifier stage is a polarization-maintaining, very-large-mode-area fiber with ~1000 μm2 effective area pumped by a Raman fiber laser. The optical output is single-frequency, one microsecond pulses with >450 μJ pulse energy, 7.5 KHz repetition rate, single spatial mode, and < 20 dB polarization extinction.

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Mark Stephen, Anthony Yu, Jeffrey Chen, Kenji Numata, Stewart Wu, Brayler Gonzales, Lawrence Han, Molly Fahey, Michael Plants, Michael Rodriguez, Graham Allan, James Abshire, Jeffrey Nicholson, Anand Hariharan, William Mamakos, and Brian Bean "Fiber-based laser MOPA transmitter packaging for space environment", Proc. SPIE 10513, Components and Packaging for Laser Systems IV, 1051308 (20 February 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2290720

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