Title :
Compact blue upconversion fiber laser pumped by a diode-pumpable Raman fiber
Author :
Feller, G.S. ; Srinivasan, Bama ; Grubb, S.G. ; Booth, I.J. ; Jain, Ravinder K.
Author_Institution :
Center for High Technol. Mater., New Mexico Univ., Albuquerque, NM, USA
Abstract :
Summary form only given. Compact and rugged blue laser sources are needed for a wide variety of commercial applications. The thulium-doped ZBLAN fiber laser, which has yielded over 100 mW of blue, appears particularly suitable for such applications. Unfortunately, because of the present unavailability of high-power diode lasers at the appropriate pump wavelengths (1110-1150 nm), scalability of such lasers to higher powers in a reliable and cost effective manner remains a significant problem. This talk demonstrates such a scalable pump source, and its use as a pump for an unoptimized Tm:ZBLAN fiber laser. Our work is based on the use of a Raman fiber laser as a novel pump scheme for the 480-nm Tm:ZBLAN upconversion fiber laser.
Keywords :
Raman lasers; aluminium compounds; barium compounds; fibre lasers; lanthanum compounds; optical communication equipment; optical frequency conversion; optical pumping; thulium; zirconium compounds; 100 mW; 1110 to 1150 nm; 980 nm; Raman fiber laser; ZBLANTm; ZrF4-BaF2-LaF3-AlF3-NaFTm; appropriate pump wavelengths; commercial applications; compact blue upconversion fiber laser; cost effective manner; diode-pumpable Raman fiber; high-power diode lasers; higher powers; nm Tm:ZBLAN upconversion fiber laser; novel pump scheme; reliable; rugged blue laser sources; scalability; scalable pump source; thulium-doped ZBLAN fiber laser; unoptimized Tm:ZBLAN fiber laser; Diodes; Electrons; Fiber lasers; Laser beams; Laser excitation; Laser modes; Power generation; Power lasers; Pump lasers; Stimulated emission;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1996. CLEO '96., Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on
Conference_Location :
Anaheim, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-443-2
