• DocumentCode
    3726261
  • Title

    Long-cavity nanosecond thulium fiber laser: A compact source of energetic mid-IR pulses

  • Author

    Yao Li;Xing Bi;Yafei Meng;Xiaokang Cao;Yongbing Xu;Edmund Kelleher;Fengqiu Wang

  • Author_Institution
    School of Electronic Science and Engineering and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
  • Volume
    3
  • fYear
    2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate nanosecond operation in an elongated cavity thulium fiber laser: a simple scheme for pulse energy scaling and repetition rate reduction. 7.5 nJ pulses with a repetition rate of 330 kHz are achieved.
  • Keywords
    "Cavity resonators","Optical fiber dispersion","Optical fiber amplifiers","Optical fiber couplers","Thulium","Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim (CLEO-PR), 2015 11th Conference on
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEOPR.2015.7376378
  • Filename
    7376378