Title :
High-energy, in-band, cladding-pumped erbium doped pulsed fiber lasers
Author :
Lim, Ee-Leong ; Alam, Shaif-ul ; Richardson, David J.
Author_Institution :
Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Univ. of Southampton, Southampton, UK
Abstract :
We demonstrate a high-energy, in-band, cladding-pumped MOPA at 1563nm that is >;1.5 times more efficient than the equivalent core pumped MOPA variant. A maximum pulse energy of 1.4mJ was obtained for 159ns pulses with M2≈1.5.
Keywords :
erbium; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre cladding; optical pumping; MOPA; cladding-pumped fiber lasers; erbium doped pulsed fiber lasers; high-energy fiber lasers; in-band fiber lasers; master oscillator power amplifier; time 159 ns; wavelength 1563 nm; Erbium; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Laser excitation; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber couplers; Pump lasers; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1839-6
