kW pulsed nanosecond TDFL with direct modulation

Clément Romano; Yves Jaouën; Robert E. Tench; Jean-Marc Delavaux

doi:10.1117/12.2506828

7 March 2019 kW pulsed nanosecond TDFL with direct modulation

Clément Romano, Yves Jaouën, Robert E. Tench, Jean-Marc Delavaux

Proceedings Volume 10897, Fiber Lasers XVI: Technology and Systems; 1089708 (2019) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2506828
Event: SPIE LASE, 2019, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

We present a kW level pulsed laser based on a master oscillator power amplifier (MOPA) configuration. The directly modulated single frequency laser at 1952 nm was pulsed in the nanosecond regime with a repetition rate frequency from 10 kHz to 2 MHz. The MOPA topology was based on a two stage amplifier using single clad Thulium-doped fiber: it consisted of a pre-amplifier stage followed by a booster stage. We investigated the performance of this pulsed laser for two different TDFs with different saturating energies in the booster stage. The direct modulation allowed us to demonstrate more than 1 kW of output peak power over pulse repetition frequencies from 10 kHz to 500 kHz. For a pulse duration of 21 ns, we measured output energy of 13 μJ and 29 μJ for booster fiber saturating energies of 15 μJ and 30 μJ, respectively.

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Clément Romano, Yves Jaouën, Robert E. Tench, and Jean-Marc Delavaux "kW pulsed nanosecond TDFL with direct modulation", Proc. SPIE 10897, Fiber Lasers XVI: Technology and Systems, 1089708 (7 March 2019); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2506828

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