We demonstrated a 3.8 kW-level all-fiberized high-brightness laser with the structure of MOPA (master oscillator power amplification). The maximum output power is ~3894 W with the SRS (stimulated Raman scattering) intensity 10 dB below and ~3812 W with the SRS intensity 20 dB below. The spectrum has a central wavelength of 1080 nm with an FWHM (full width at half-maximum) bandwidth of ~2.2 nm. The slope efficiency of the fiber amplifier with respect to the pump power is ~81%. With a 25-μm-core ytterbium-doped gain fiber of the amplifier and 30-μm-core output fiber, the laser can keep a high beam quality (M2 ) which is estimated to be about 2.6 below.
In this article, a fiber-solid hybrid amplification picosecond laser system is developed. The maximum single pulse energy of the fiber seed source can exceed 50 nJ and the beam quality factor M2 is less than 1.10. After two-stage traveling-wave amplifiers, the final average power of 23.6 W was obtained, corresponding to the maximum single pulse energy of 118 μJ with a repetition rate of 200 kHz. The research results of this article can provide an effective reference for the implementation of a higher-power Nd: YVO4 laser system.
A frequency-tunable Q-switched laser operation at 1064 nm pumped by a wavelength-locked 878 nm semiconductor diode was reported. Under CW operation mode, the maximum output power of 30.5 W was obtained while the pumping power was 55.9 W, and the light-light conversion efficiency was 54.56 %; While in the Q-switching operation mode, the maximum output power of 24.93 W was obtained when the pumping power was 53.05 W, and the light-light conversion efficiency was 46.54 %. Provides stable operation in Q-switching mode between 60 kHz and 300 kHz repetition frequency with a pulse width range of 22.5 ns to 24 ns. The laser with beam quality M 2x=1.21 and M2y=1.33 was obtained.
Using ytterbium doped single-clad/double-clad fiber amplifiers, different amplification experiments were conducted on narrow pulse width picosecond light, and the influence of self-phase modulation on pulse frequency domain characteristics during amplification was analyzed. A self developed picosecond oscillator based on semiconductor saturable absorber mirror (SESAM) mode locking is used to directly enter the main amplifier device. The oscillator has a pulse width of 6.8 ps, a repetition rate of 20.76 MHz, and a center wavelength of 1064.3 nm. After amplification, the maximum output power is 315 mW, with an energy of about 15 nJ. The phenomenon of spectral changes caused by selfphase modulation of picosecond pulsed light during amplification is explored. When the output pulse optical power is about 200 mW and the pulse energy is about 10 nJ, and the injection power is 39.4 mW, 134 mW, 229.2 mW, and 326.8 mW, respectively, the corresponding spectral widths are 0.187 nm, 0.522 nm, 0.53 nm, and 0.588 nm, respectively. Experimental research shows that under the same output pulse energy conditions, the smaller the injected optical power, the better the output pulse spectral morphology. As the injected optical power decreases, the effect of pulse shape on self-phase modulation in fiber lasers decreases.
An erbium-doped fiber laser based on nonlinear polarization rotation (NPR) mode-locking is proposed. On account of the multi-mode interference filtering effect introduced by the laser cavity multi-mode fiber, by adjusting the cavity polarization controllers, the laser generates dual-wavelengths of 1533.48 nm/1547.61 nm, 1549.16 nm/1561.94 nm, 1533.14 nm/1562.96 nm, and triple-wavelengths of 1533.43 nm, 1548.46 nm and 1562.68 nm, corresponding to 388.95 kHz, 388.93 kHz and 388.91 kHz, respectively. The compact structure of the system has potential applications in spectroscopy, optical communication, optical sensing and other fields.
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