1.2MW peak power, all-solid-state picosecond laser with a microchip laser seed and a high gain single-passing bounce geometry amplifier

2016 ◽  
Vol 85 ◽  
pp. 14-18
Author(s):  
Chunhua Wang ◽  
Lifeng Shen ◽  
Zhiliang Zhao ◽  
Bin Liu ◽  
Hongbo Jiang ◽  
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Photonics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Mehmetcan Akbulut ◽  
Leonid Kotov ◽  
Kort Wiersma ◽  
Jie Zong ◽  
Maohe Li ◽  
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We report on an eye-safe, transform-limited, millijoule energy, and high average power fiber laser. The high gain and short length of the NP phosphate-glass fibers enable the SBS-free operation with kW level peak power. The output energy is up to 1.3 mJ, and the average power is up to 23 W at an 18 kHz repetition rate with 600 ns pulses (peak power > 2.1 kW). The PER is ≈16 dB and the M2 of the beam is 1.33 × 1.18. The coherent LIDAR Figure Of Merit (FOM) is 174 mJ*sqrt(Hz), which to our knowledge is the highest reported for a fiber laser. We also report 0.75 mJ energy and >3.7 kW peak power with down to 200 ns pulses and up to 1.21 mJ energy with a 3–5 kHz repetition rate operation of the current system.


Author(s):  
Yangyu Liu ◽  
Xue Cao ◽  
AnHua Xian ◽  
Guangmiao Liu ◽  
Wei zhou ◽  
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Abstract We demonstrate stable continuous-wave mode-locking (CWML) pulses around 1645nm by employing the home-made Er:YAG ceramic. By using a fiber laser and semiconductor saturable absorber mirror (SESAM) with modulation depth of 1.2%, we get ML pulses with the output average power up to 815 mW, the pulse width shortened as ~4 ps, and the peak power of 1.8 kW. With the SESAM of modulation depth of 2.4%, the second-order harmonic ML pulses were also obtained. As far as we know, this is the first report of CWML from Er3+-doped ceramics and also the shortest pulse duration in Er3+-doped solid-state oscillators.


Author(s):  
J.R. Untermahrer ◽  
J.L. August ◽  
X. Chen ◽  
M.J. Kukia ◽  
W.T. Lotshaw ◽  
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