High power 28 W supercontinuum fiber laser source

Gao Jing; Yu Feng; Kuang Hongshen; Ge Tingwu; Wang Zhiyong

An all -fiber high power supercontinuum laser source was experimentally reported. An ytterbium-doped ring fiber oscillator was established as the seed source. By utilizing a three-stage master oscillator power amplifier (MOPA), the signal light average power was amplified to 62 W with a central wavelength of 1 065 nm, the 3 dB spectral bandwidth was 15 nm, and the repetition rate was 118 MHz. By coupling the amplified pulsed laser into a piece of photonic crystal fiber(PCF) with a 1 040 nm zerodispersion wavelength, supercontinuum with 28W output average power was obtained, the spectrum range was covering from 600 nm to 1 700 nm, and the optical conversion efficiency is 45%. In this experiment, the coupling problem between large core doped fiber and photonic crystal fiber at high output power was also solved.

1. National Center of Laser Technology,Institute of Laser Engineering,Beijing University of Technology,Beijing 100124,China

Received Date: 2013-06-18

Rev Recd Date: 2013-07-14

Publish Date: 2014-09-25

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Abstract: An all -fiber high power supercontinuum laser source was experimentally reported. An ytterbium-doped ring fiber oscillator was established as the seed source. By utilizing a three-stage master oscillator power amplifier (MOPA), the signal light average power was amplified to 62 W with a central wavelength of 1 065 nm, the 3 dB spectral bandwidth was 15 nm, and the repetition rate was 118 MHz. By coupling the amplified pulsed laser into a piece of photonic crystal fiber(PCF) with a 1 040 nm zerodispersion wavelength, supercontinuum with 28W output average power was obtained, the spectrum range was covering from 600 nm to 1 700 nm, and the optical conversion efficiency is 45%. In this experiment, the coupling problem between large core doped fiber and photonic crystal fiber at high output power was also solved.

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