An all-fiber high-energy cladding-pumped 93 nanosecond Q-switched fiber laser using an Y3+-doped fiber saturable absorber

Sean W. Moore; Brian D. Patterson; Daniel B. Soh; Scott E. Bisson

doi:10.1117/12.2040813

7 March 2014 An all-fiber high-energy cladding-pumped 93 nanosecond Q-switched fiber laser using an Y ³⁺-doped fiber saturable absorber

Sean W. Moore, Brian D. Patterson, Daniel B. Soh, Scott E. Bisson

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Proceedings Volume 8961, Fiber Lasers XI: Technology, Systems, and Applications; 896113 (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2040813
Event: SPIE LASE, 2014, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

We report an all-fiber passively Q-switched laser using a large mode area (LMA) Yb³⁺ -doped fiber claddingpumped at 915 nm and an unpumped single-mode (SM) Yb3⁺-doped fiber as the saturable absorber (SA). The saturable absorber SM fiber and LMA gain fiber were coupled with a fiber taper designed to match the fundamental spatial mode of the LMA fiber and the expanded LP01 mode of the single mode fiber. The amplified spontaneous (ASE) intensity propagating in the single mode SA saturates the absorption before the onset of gain depletion in the pumped fiber, switching the fiber cavity to a high Q-state and producing a pulse. Using this scheme we demonstrate a Q-switched all-fiber oscillator with 32 μJ 93 ns pulses at 1030 nm. The associated peak power is nearly two orders of magnitude larger than that reported in previous experimental studies using a single Yb⁺³saturable absorber fiber. The pulse energy was amplified to 0.230 mJ using an Yb³⁺-doped cladding pumped fiber amplifier fusion spliced to the fiber oscillator, increasing the energy by eight fold while preserving the all-fiber architecture.

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Sean W. Moore, Brian D. Patterson, Daniel B. Soh, and Scott E. Bisson "An all-fiber high-energy cladding-pumped 93 nanosecond Q-switched fiber laser using an Y ³⁺-doped fiber saturable absorber", Proc. SPIE 8961, Fiber Lasers XI: Technology, Systems, and Applications, 896113 (7 March 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2040813

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