Diffraction-limited, 300-kW-peak-power pulses from a Yb-doped fiber amplifier

Author

Di Teodoro, F. ; Koplow, J.P. ; Moore, S.W. ; Kliner, D.A.V.

Author_Institution

Div. of Opt. Sci., Naval Res. Lab., Washington, DC, USA

fYear

2002

fDate

24-24 May 2002

Firstpage

592

Abstract

Summary from only given. We demonstrate that bend loss-induced mode filtering is effective in scaling large-core-area fiber amplifiers to significantly higher pulse energies and peak powers while maintaining diffraction-limited beam quality, high repetition rates, and transform-limited temporal and spectral profiles. This system provides the highest single-transverse-mode pulse energy, peak power, and average power simultaneously extracted from a fiber amplifier to date.

Keywords

high-speed optical techniques; laser beams; laser modes; light diffraction; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre losses; ytterbium; 300 kW; Yb-doped fiber amplifier; bend loss-induced mode filtering; diffraction-limited beam quality; high repetition rates; large-core-area fiber amplifiers; laser scaling; peak powers; pulse energies; single-transverse-mode pulse energy; spectral profiles; transform-limited temporal profiles; Diffraction; Diode lasers; Doped fiber amplifiers; Fiber lasers; Laser excitation; Optical coupling; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical pulses; Power generation; Pulse amplifiers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2002. CLEO '02. Technical Digest. Summaries of Papers Presented at the

Conference_Location

Long Beach, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-706-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2002.1034364

Filename

1034364