Q-switched thulium-doped fiber laser

Piotr Myslinski; Xing Pan; Chris W. Barnard; Jacek Chrostowski; Brian Thomas Sullivan; Jean-Francois Bayon

doi:10.1117/12.143911

1 September 1993 Q-switched thulium-doped fiber laser

Piotr Myslinski, Xing Pan, Chris W. Barnard, Jacek Chrostowski, Brian Thomas Sullivan, Jean-Francois Bayon

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 32, Issue 9, (September 1993). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.143911

Abstract

A tunable Q-switched thulium-doped single-mode silica fiber laser is presented for the first time. Its performance is analyzed as a function of pulse repetition rate and pumping power. The optimization of laser parameters resulted in 4 W/130 ns, 1.92-μm wavelength pulses generated at a 4-kHz repetition rate. From the measured values of small-signal attenuation and intrinsic saturation power, the thulium ion parameters at the pump and signal wavelength are derived and used in theoretical modeling of the laser. The moderate power required from the Ti:sapphire pump laser used in the experiment suggests that similar resuIts can be obtained using a laser diode pump.

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Piotr Myslinski, Xing Pan, Chris W. Barnard, Jacek Chrostowski, Brian Thomas Sullivan, and Jean-Francois Bayon "Q-switched thulium-doped fiber laser," Optical Engineering 32(9), (1 September 1993). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.143911

Published: 1 September 1993

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