• DocumentCode
    500586
  • Title

    100W, fully-fiberised ytterbium dDoped master oscillator power amplifier incorporating adaptive pulse shaping

  • Author

    Lin, Dejiao ; Alam, Shaif-ul ; Chen, Kangkang ; Malinowski, Andrew ; Norman, Steve ; Richardson, David

  • Author_Institution
    Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Univ. of Southampton, Southampton, UK
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    2-4 June 2009
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We report a pulsed, fully-fiberised, Yb-doped MOPA with a maximum average output power of 100 W. Adaptive pulse shaping was incorporated to reduce the impact of nonlinearities, delivering 2mJ flat-topped pulses with 20 kW peak power.
  • Keywords
    optical fibre amplifiers; optical pulse shaping; ytterbium; JkJk:Yb; adaptive pulse shaping; energy 2 mJ; flat topped pulse; fully fiberised ytterbium doped master oscillator power amplifier; power 100 W; power 20 kW; Optical amplifiers; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical pulse shaping; Optical pulses; Oscillators; Power amplifiers; Power generation; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse shaping methods; Ytterbium; (060.2320) Fiber Optics Amplifiers and Oscillators; (320.5540) Pulse shaping;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2009 and 2009 Conference on Quantum electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2009. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-869-8
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-55752-869-8
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5225998