Cascaded Raman lasing in a multimode diode-pumped graded-index fiber

Alexey G. Kuznetsov; Ilya N. Nemov; Alexey A. Wolf; Sergey I. Kablukov; Sergey A. Babin

doi:10.1117/12.2610384

4 March 2022 Cascaded Raman lasing in a multimode diode-pumped graded-index fiber

Alexey G. Kuznetsov, Ilya N. Nemov, Alexey A. Wolf, Sergey I. Kablukov, Sergey A. Babin

Proceedings Volume 11985, Nonlinear Frequency Generation and Conversion: Materials and Devices XXI; 1198504 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2610384
Event: SPIE LASE, 2022, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Graded-index fibers enable efficient Raman conversion of multimode radiation into a Stokes beam with improved beam quality offering new approach for high-brightness diode-pumped all-fiber tunable lasers. Here we study an opportunity to broaden the operating wavelength range via cascaded Raman lasing in such scheme. Highly-multimode 940-nm laserdiode radiation is serially converted into the 1st(976nm), 2nd(1019nm) and 3rd(1065 nm) order Stokes beam. At the conversion the beam quality is greatly improved approaching diffraction limit (M²<1.4). Linear and half-open cavities are compared showing that the conversion efficiency is higher for half-open cavity, whereas the threshold is lower for linear cavity that was used for the 3rd -order generation. Generation of 3rd Stokes order is accompanied by unstable pulsations with higher (4th and 5th) orders involved in the lasing with total power of ~4 W, while its beam quality worsens to M²~2.

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Alexey G. Kuznetsov, Ilya N. Nemov, Alexey A. Wolf, Sergey I. Kablukov, and Sergey A. Babin "Cascaded Raman lasing in a multimode diode-pumped graded-index fiber", Proc. SPIE 11985, Nonlinear Frequency Generation and Conversion: Materials and Devices XXI, 1198504 (4 March 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2610384

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