An 1μm all-fiber based pulsed laser system incorporating an agile waveform tailoring driver

Author

Ong, C.E. ; Ho, Y.H. ; Yeap, K.H. ; Lee, S.C. ; Teh, P.C. ; Teh, P.S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Univ. Tunku Abdul Rahman, Kampar, Malaysia

fYear

2014

fDate

2-4 Sept. 2014

Firstpage

126

Lastpage

128

Abstract

This paper describes a 1.06μm all-fiber based pulsed laser source incorporating an agile Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) based driver board, which has the capabilities to generate pulses with arbitrary shapes and controllable bursts. Optical pulse durations tunable from picoseconds to nanoseconds, as well as pulse frequency adjustments from 1kHz to 1MHz can be achieved. An average optical power of 1W can be obtained from the amplified system with the output optical pulses optimized by reshaping the input pulses using this agile waveform tailoring method.

Keywords

fibre lasers; field programmable gate arrays; integrated optics; integrated optoelectronics; optical pulse generation; optical pulse shaping; FPGA; agile waveform tailoring driver; all-fiber based pulsed laser source; all-fiber based pulsed laser system; controllable pulse bursts; field programmable gate array; frequency 1 kHz to 1 MHz; optical power; optical pulse durations; power 1 W; pulse frequency adjustments; pulse generation; pulse reshaping; wavelength 1.06 mum; Integrated optics; Laser excitation; Optical pulse shaping; Optical pulses; Pump lasers; Semiconductor lasers; Shape; Fiber Laser; Field Programmable Gate Array; Laser Micromachining;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photonics (ICP), 2014 IEEE 5th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kuala Lumpur

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICP.2014.7002331

Filename

7002331