Title :
Widely and Rapidly Tunable Semiconductor Master-Oscillator Fiber Amplifier Around 1080 nm
Author :
Adhimoolam, Balaji ; Klein, Marvin E. ; Lindsay, Ian D. ; Gros, Petra ; Lee, Chris J. ; Boller, Klaus-Jochen
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Sci. & Technol., Twente Univ., Enschede
Abstract :
We describe the wide and rapid wavelength tuning of a continuous-wave master-oscillator power-amplifier system consisting of a semiconductor-amplifier-based oscillator and an ytterbium (Yb)-doped fiber amplifier. The oscillator utilizes an acoustooptic tunable filter and an intracavity etalon to achieve wavelength tuning of 36 nm in 5 ms. The 50-mW output from the master oscillator was amplified to over 9 W in an Yb-doped fiber amplifier
Keywords :
Fiber lasers; Fiber nonlinear optics; Laser tuning; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fibers; Oscillators; Power amplifiers; Semiconductor laser arrays; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Tunable circuits and devices; Laser tuning; optical fiber amplifiers; semiconductor lasers; semiconductor optical amplifiers;
Journal_Title :
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LPT.2006.887887
