Narrow Linewidth Tm^3＋-Doped Large Core Fiber Laser Based on a Femtosecond Written Fiber Bragg Grating

A diode laser （LD） clad-pumped narrow linewidth all-fiber Tm^3＋-doped fiber laser is reported with a maximal output power of 27W at 1.947μm. By successively splicing an LD pigtail fiber, a single-mode Tm^3＋-doped fiber, and a multi-mode Tm^3＋-doped fiber, the fiber laser has 70pm narrow linewidth output, and a high slope efficiency of nearly 47.5% with respect to the launched pump power. The high reflectivity fiber Bragg gratings, which are directly written into the single-mode Tm^3＋-doped fiber core by the 800nm femtosecond pulsed laser, act as the high reflectivity coupler. The output laser has diffraction-limited beam quality with a factor M^2 of 1.29, when the output laser power is nearly 27W.     

High-powered millijoule pulse energy Tm3＋-doped fiber amplifier at 2.05μm

A high-powered millijoule pulse energy Tm 3+ -doped fiber amplifier seeded with a Q-switched operation of Tm (4 at.-%), Ho (0.4 at.-%):YVO 4 laser is reported. The output characteristics of the amplified laser are studied at the coupled powers of 0.266, 1.24, and 2.65 W. Maximum output power up to 15.7 W is at 10-kHz repetition rate. Nonlinear effects are not observed from the emitting spectrum and the full-width at half-maximum (FWHM) of the pulse duration is reduced from 40.1 to 25.9 ns at 1.57-mJ pulse energy. The beam quality factor M 2 x = 1.9±0.03, M 2 y = 2.1±0.02 at the output power of 14.5 W is measured using the traveling knife-edge method.     

A theoretical and experimental investigation of an in-band pumped gain-switched thulium-doped fiber laser

In this paper,the theoretical rate equation model of an in-band pumped gain-switched thulium-doped fiber(TDF) laser is investigated.The analytical formulations of pump energy threshold,peak power extraction efficiency,and pulse extraction efficiency are derived through analyzing the interaction process between the pump pulse and the laser pulse.They are useful for understanding,designing,and optimizing the in-band pumped TDF lasers in a 1.9 μm-2.1 μm wavelength region.The experiment with an all-fiber gain-switched TDF laser pumped by a 1.558-μm pulse amplifier is conducted,and our experimental results show good agreement with theoretical analysis.     

一种对双包层大芯径光纤光栅反射率和纤芯折射率调制估算的方法

报道了一种简单而又实用对双包层大芯径光纤光栅反射率和纤芯折射率调制的估算方法．通过监测和记录光栅刻写过程中光纤激光器输出功率随时间的变化,将实验数据和掺铥光纤激光器的速率方程理论相结合,对刻写光栅反射率和纤芯折射率变化进行估算．光纤光栅的最大反射率大约为96．4％,纤芯折射率调制达到1．2×10^-3．利用显微镜对光栅进行观测,纤芯的折射率调制变化均匀,且周期与模板周期一致．将光纤光栅应用在全光纤化掺铥光纤激光器中,在抽运功率为51．6W时,获得15．5w的1950．6nm激光输出,斜率效率为37．9％,并在输出功率为15w时,利用刀口法测得光束质量M2≈1．4．