Numerical modelling of erbium (III) doped Q-switched fibre lasers

Author

Sujecki, S. ; Oladeji, A. ; Benson, T.M. ; Seddon, A.B. ; Scholle, K. ; Lamrini, S. ; Fuhrberg, P.

Author_Institution

George Green Inst. for Electromagn. Res., Univ. of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

fYear

2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

We consider the modelling and design of high power ZBLAN glass based erbium (III) doped fibre lasers operating in the Q-switched regime. The detailed description of all models used is given. The results are calculated for a standard set of modelling parameters used in the literature, which correspond to a commercially available erbium doped ZBLAN fibre. We apply a time domain method which uses a steady state model to obtain the approximation of the initial conditions and study the dependence of the pulse shape on laser operating parameters.

Keywords

Q-switching; aluminium compounds; barium compounds; erbium; fibre lasers; lanthanum compounds; optical glass; sodium compounds; zirconium compounds; ZBLAN:Er; erbium (III) doped Q-switched fibre lasers; high power ZBLAN glass; numerical modelling; pulse shape; time domain method; Approximation methods; Erbium; Mathematical model; Numerical models; Steady-state; Switches; Time-domain analysis; Q-switched fibre lasers; fibre laser modelling; numerical modelling;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2015 17th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Budapest

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2015.7193548

Filename

7193548