High-Peak Power, All-Fiber Passively Q-Switched Laser Using a Sm-Doped Fiber Saturable Absorber

Autor:	Xiaolong Chen, Jun Zhou, Bing He, Yifeng Yang, Ye Zheng, Lei Zhang, Houkang Liu, Man Hu
Rok vydání:	2014
Předmět:	Optical fiber Materials science business.industry Polarization-maintaining optical fiber Saturable absorption Graded-index fiber Q-switching Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics law.invention Double-clad fiber Optics law Fiber laser Laser power scaling business
Zdroj:	Journal of Lightwave Technology. 32:2510-2515
ISSN:	1558-2213 0733-8724
Popis:	An all-fiber passively Q-switched Yb-doped fiber laser with fiber saturable absorber (SA) based on a piece of Sm-doped fiber is presented. For the first time, we observe the fast stimulated Brillouin scattering Q-switched process in an Yb/Sm all-fiber laser and obtain 41 ns pulses and 1.7 kW maximum peak power. Compared with the reported traditional SA Q-switched process, the pulse energy and peak power are both improved an order of magnitude. Furthermore, a traditional SA Q-switched process with 450 ns pulsewidth and 7.5 W peak power is also obtained in the same structure by increasing the feedback of cavity's output end.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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