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

fYear

2011

fDate

22-26 May 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe (CLEO EUROPE/EQEC), 2011 Conference on and 12th European Quantum Electronics Conference

Conference_Location

Munich

ISSN

Pending

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0533-5

Electronic_ISBN

Pending

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE.2011.5942897

Filename

5942897