Er-Doped Tapered Fiber Amplifier for High Peak Power Sub-ns Pulse Amplification

Er-Doped Tapered Fiber Amplifier for High Peak Power Sub-ns Pulse Amplification

A tapered Er-doped fiber amplifier for high peak power pulses amplification has been developed and tested. The core diameter changed from 15.8 µm (mode field diameter (MFD) 14.5 µm) to 93 µm (MFD 40 µm) along 3.7 m maintaining single-mode performance at 1555 nm (according to the S<sup>2</su...

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Main Authors: Maksim M. Khudyakov, Andrei E. Levchenko, Vladimir V. Velmiskin, Konstantin K. Bobkov, Svetlana S. Aleshkina, Mikhail M. Bubnov, Mikhail V. Yashkov, Aleksei N. Gur’yanov, Leonid V. Kotov, Mikhail E. Likhachev
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-11-01
Series:Photonics
Subjects:
taper
Er-doped
high efficiency
high peak power
self-phase modulation
very large mode area
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2304-6732/8/12/523
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Summary:A tapered Er-doped fiber amplifier for high peak power pulses amplification has been developed and tested. The core diameter changed from 15.8 µm (mode field diameter (MFD) 14.5 µm) to 93 µm (MFD 40 µm) along 3.7 m maintaining single-mode performance at 1555 nm (according to the S<sup>2</sup>-method, the part of the power of high-order modes does not exceed 1.5%). The amplification of 0.9 ns pulses with spectral width below 0.04 nm up to a peak power above 200 kW (limited by self-phase modulation) with a slope pump-to-signal conversion efficiency of 15.6% was demonstrated.
ISSN:2304-6732

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