Title
High-Power Widely Tunable Thulium Fiber Lasers
Abstract
Applications requiring long-range atmospheric propagation are driving the development of high-power thulium fiber lasers. We report on the performance of two different laser configurations for high-power tunable thulium fiber lasers: one is a single oscillator utilizing a volume Bragg grating for wavelength stabilization; the other is a master oscillator power amplifier system with the oscillator stabilized and made tunable by a diffraction grating. Each configuration provides >150 W of average power, >50% slope efficiency, narrow output linewidth, and >100 nm tunability in the wavelength range around 2 ,μm. © 2010 Optical Society of America.
Publication Date
11-10-2010
Publication Title
Applied Optics
Volume
49
Issue
32
Number of Pages
6236-6242
Document Type
Article
Personal Identifier
scopus
DOI Link
https://doi.org/10.1364/AO.49.006236
Copyright Status
Unknown
Socpus ID
78149422675 (Scopus)
Source API URL
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/78149422675
STARS Citation
McComb, Timothy S.; Sims, R. Andrew; Willis, Christina C.C.; Kadwani, Pankaj; and Sudesh, Vikas, "High-Power Widely Tunable Thulium Fiber Lasers" (2010). Scopus Export 2010-2014. 124.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/scopus2010/124