Title :
8 watts actively mode-locked Ytterbium doped fiber laser delivering 15 ps pulses at 40 MHz
Author :
Deslandes, Pierre ; Sangla, Damien ; Perrin, M. ; Saby, Julien ; Salin, Francois ; Freysz, Eric
Author_Institution :
CNRS, Univ. de Bordeaux, Talence, France
Abstract :
Several industrial applications require highly reliable and efficient laser systems delivering high average power in the modelocking regime. For this purpose, the frequency feedback laser architecture which is based on doped fibers and acousto-optic modulator has numerous advantageous compared to passive ML with SES AM. In order to investigate the power scalability of the studied concept, two different lasers were built with Ytterbium doped polarization maintaining Photonic Crystal fibers.
Keywords :
acousto-optical modulation; fibre lasers; holey fibres; laser feedback; laser mode locking; optical fibre polarisation; photonic crystals; ytterbium; acousto-optic modulator; actively mode-locked ytterbium doped fiber laser; frequency feedback laser architecture; laser power; polarization maintaining photonic crystal fibers; power 8 W; power scalability; Delta modulation; Frequency measurement; Numerical models;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe (CLEO EUROPE/EQEC), 2011 Conference on and 12th European Quantum Electronics Conference
Conference_Location :
Munich
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0533-5
Electronic_ISBN :
Pending
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOE.2011.5942897
