Title: Stable 10 ns, kilowatt peak-power pulse generation from a gain-switched Tm-doped fiber laser
Abstract: We report what we believe to be the first demonstration of stable short pulse (10 ns) generation from a gain-switched Tm-doped fiber laser in the 2 μm spectral region. A modulated 1.55 μm pump laser was used for fast gain switching to regulate the conventionally chaotic spiking in the gain-switched fiber laser. From a 6.3 μm core all-fiber oscillator, over a kilowatt of peak power was obtained at the slope efficiency of 50% and freely varying repetition rate up to 500 kHz.
Publication Year: 2007
Publication Date: 2007-06-19
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref', 'pubmed']
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