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
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"
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim (CLEO-PR), 2015 11th Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOPR.2015.7376378
