Er:Yb-doped waveguide amplifier and laser fabricated by using a new diode-pumped femtosecond oscillator

Author

Valle, G. Della ; Taccheo, S. ; Osellame, R. ; Cerullo, Giulio ; Chiodo, N. ; Laporta, P. ; Svelto, O. ; Killi, A. ; Morgner, U. ; Lederer, M. ; Kopf, D.

Author_Institution

Dipt. di Fisica, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Volume

3

fYear

2005

fDate

6-11 March 2005

Abstract

We demonstrated for the first time effective amplification and laser action in a 20-mm long waveguide fabricated on a erbium-ytterbium-doped phosphate glass by means of femtosecond laser pulses. Gain in the full C-band with more than 2 dB/cm peak value and laser action with 2 dBm output power was achieved. Waveguides were manufactured using the 520-nm radiation from a frequency-doubled, diode-pumped cavity-dumped Yb:glass laser operating at 166 kHz repetition rate, with 300 fs pulse duration. A writing time of a few seconds is demonstrated.

Keywords

erbium compounds; frequency multipliers; optical fibre amplifiers; oscillators; phosphate glasses; ytterbium; 166 kHz; 20 mm; 300 fs; 520 nm; C-band; Er:Yb-doped waveguide amplifier; cavity-dumped Yb:glass laser; diode-pumped femtosecond oscillator; erbium-ytterbium-doped phosphate glass; femtosecond laser pulses; frequency-doubled Yb:glass laser; laser action; Diodes; Frequency; Glass; Manufacturing; Optical pulses; Oscillators; Power generation; Power lasers; Pulse amplifiers; Waveguide lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2005. Technical Digest. OFC/NFOEC

Print_ISBN

1-55752-783-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OFC.2005.192808

Filename

1501339