Widely tunable eye-safe laser by a passively Q-switched photonic crystal fiber laser and an external-cavity optical parametric oscillator
| Autor: | H. L. Chang, W. C. Huang, W. Z. Zhuang, Jung Y. Huang, Kai-Feng Huang, Yung-Fu Chen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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Distributed feedback laser
Materials science Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous) business.industry Lithium niobate Physics::Optics Saturable absorption Laser law.invention chemistry.chemical_compound Wavelength Optics chemistry law Fiber laser Optical parametric oscillator Optoelectronics business Instrumentation Photonic-crystal fiber |
| Zdroj: | Laser Physics Letters. |
| ISSN: | 1612-2011 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/lapl.201110050 |
| Popis: | We report on a widely tunable passively Q-switched photonic crystal fiber (PCF) laser with wavelength tuning range up to 80 nm. The PCF laser utilizes an AlGaInAs quantum well/barrier structure as a saturable absorber and incorporates an external-cavity optical parametric oscillator (OPO) to achieve wavelength conversion. Under a pump power of 13.1 W at 976 nm, the PCF laser generated 1029-nm radiation with maximum output energy of 750 μJ and was incident into an external-cavity OPO. The output energy and peak power of signal wave was found to be 138 μJ and 19 kW, respectively. By tuning the temperature of nonlinear crystal, periodically poled lithium niobate (PPLN), in the OPO, the signal wavelength in eye-safe regime from 1513 to 1593 nm was obtained. |
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