Watt-power scalability of the near-infrared and UV, PPKTP and PPLT based sources using 40 dBm seeded erbium fibre amplifier

Author

Champert, P.A. ; Popov, S.V. ; Taylor, J.R. ; Meyn, J.P.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys., Imperial Coll. of Sci., Technol. & Med., London, UK

fYear

2001

fDate

11-11 May 2001

Firstpage

116

Lastpage

117

Abstract

Summary form only given. We report on increased power scalability for generation of 772 nm and 386 nm radiation using second harmonic (SH) generation in periodically poled KTP (PPKTP) and LiTaO/sub 3/ (PPLT). We have demonstrated the power-up scalability of 772 nm PPKTP based source to 3.5 W average power level, and of 386 nm PPLT based source to 235 mW level using 40 dBm seeded erbium fibre amplifier. The sources benefit from high stability, compact format, fibre-based design and high wall-plug efficiency.

Keywords

erbium; infrared sources; light sources; lithium compounds; optical fibre amplifiers; optical harmonic generation; potassium compounds; titanium compounds; 235 mW; 3.5 W; 386 nm; 40 dBm seeded erbium fibre amplifier; 772 nm; KTP; KTiOPO4; LiTaO/sub 3/; PPKTP based source; PPLT based source; UV; compact format; fibre-based design; high stability; high wall-plug efficiency; near-infrared; periodically poled KTP; periodically poled LiTaO/sub 3/; power-up scalability; second harmonic generation; watt-power scalability; Fiber lasers; High power amplifiers; Laser theory; Optical coupling; Optical fiber amplifiers; Physics; Power generation; Power lasers; Pump lasers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2001. CLEO '01. Technical Digest. Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-662-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2001.947564

Filename

947564