In this work, we report experimental investigations of polarization-direction-dependent SBS threshold in monolithic high power PM amplifier. The polarization direction in the monolithic amplifier was changed by rotating the output fiber port of the seed laser before splicing to the input fiber of the amplifiers. By increasing the relative rotating angle from 0° to 90°, the polarization-direction of the input laser changed synchronously, and the measured SBS threshold increased monotonically until reaching a maximum value, beyond which it decreased in a nearly symmetrical trend. The polarization extinction ratio of output laser behaved in an opposite trend. The highest SBS threshold was reached with the polarization angle being 45°, delivered a threshold enhancement of 67% compared with that at 0°. The results provided a reference for the improvement of SBS threshold in monolithic high power PM fiber amplifiers.
The effective pumping factor for various Laser Diodes (LDs) is defined to explain the absorption characteristic of wavelength-stable LDs (WS-LDs). This factor is used to determine wavelength locking points and residual pump power. We evaluated the wavelength locking ability and residual pump power in quantity using two groups of comparable LDs and a narrow linewidth fiber laser. Prior to running LDs in a fully wavelength-locked state, the maximum residual pump power is observed at low pump power levels. This information can be useful in engineering applications for establishing appropriate cooling standards for CPS heat load. Additionally, it is valuable for WS-LD manufacturers to provide a universal evaluation factor for assessing different LDs and guiding wavelength locking quantity enhancement.
The influence of mode instability (MI) on polarization extinction ratio (PER) has been investigated in a 2 kW level polarization-maintained (PM) fiber laser system with backward-pumped configuration, and the phenomena is different from the existing observation in forward-pumped PM fiber amplifiers. During the experiment, with the onset of MI, none decrease of PER has been observed, revealing that the MI effect has little impact on PER in backward PM fiber amplifiers. The discrepancy induced by the pump configuration has been theoretically analyzed, and the origin is attributed to the longitudinally-distribution difference of high order mode induced by the MI effect.
In this paper, a preliminary demonstration of all-fiber coherent beam combining (CBC) with active polarization-and- phase control is proposed. The CBC system was composed of two laser channels combined with a fiber coupler. One channel utilized non-polarization-maintained (non-PM) fiber, and the state of polarization of laser was controlled by using a dynamic polarization controller (DPC). The other channel adopted polarization-maintained (PM) fiber, and the phase of laser was controlled by using a phase modulator. In the central controller, hill-climbing algorithm and stochastic parallel gradient descent (SPGD) algorithm were applied for phase-locking and polarization-locking respectively. With this system, 82.3% of combining efficiency was demonstrated, the extinction ratio of the combined laser was 97.3% and the phase-locking efficiency reached 96.05%.
In this work, a high-power polarization-maintained fiber laser with ultra-narrow linewidth and near diffraction limited beam quality is demonstrated. The stimulated Brillouin scattering is mitigated by optimizing phase modulation scheme, the mode instability is suppressed by coiling the active fiber, and the output power reaches to 3kW at the full width at half-maximum linewidth of 10.6GHz. At maximum output power, the stimulated Raman scattering suppression ratio reaches to 75dB, the polarization extinction ratio is 96%, the beam quality M2 is 1.156, and the further scaling of output power is limited by stimulated Brillouin scattering effect. To the best of our knowledge, this is the highest power for polarization-maintained fiber laser with about 10GHz linewidth ever reported so far.
1090 nm all-fiberized and Polarization-maintained fiber laser with narrow linewidth and near-single-mode beam quality is demonstrated. We obtain a 668 W narrow linewidth linearly laser output with a linewidth of about 22GHz, the polarization extinction ratio is about 14dB, and the M2 is less than 1.1 at the maximum output power.
The coherent beam combination of kW fiber lasers with a filling aperture has been in research. An experiment is set up to achieve the coherent beam combination. The coherent beam combination of two fiber lasers with a filling aperture is realized, and the phase bandwidth of the beam combination is measured and analyzed. The laser spots before and after the combination are detected respectively. The phase noise of high power laser is measured and the factors affecting the phase noise are analyzed.
An all-fiber system based on the principle of optical waveguide self-imaging for coherent beam combination (CBC) system is designed. A square fiber is used as the beam combination device for all-fiber CBC system. The self-imaging characteristics of the square fiber are studied. The self-imaging effect of the square fiber is verified by theoretical simulation and experiment. The square fiber has good self-imaging characteristics and is suitable for CBC using its self-imaging characteristics.
The peak power of pump pulse is a key factor in the generation of supercontinuum source. Observably, as the peak power of the pump pulse increases, the spectral range of the supercontinuum becomes wider. In order to study the blue shift limit of PCF fiber at different peak powers, in our experiment, the change in peak power is achieved by introducing a different length of chirped fiber after the oscillator to vary the pulse width. The pump source is a self-made laser with pulse duration, operating wavelength and repetition rate of 12 ps, 1064 nm and 68 MHz, respectively, which are injected into the photonic crystal fiber after three stages of amplification. Finally, a supercontinuum with an average power of 358 W in the spectral range of 466 nm to 2400 nm was achieved. Experiments have shown that the introduction of large positive chirp has a significant effect on the supercontinuum of the 10 W class, but for a supercontinuum with a sufficiently high average power (over 100 W level supercontinuum spectrum). after the peak power threshold is exceeded, further blue shift of the spectrum cannot be achieved by increasing the peak power, but the high peak power helps to improve the spectral flatness of the supercontinuum. The four-wave mixing, dispersive wave generation, radiation trapping with the soliton play much important role in the blue-shift of SC spectrum, but the short-wave edge is limited by the group velocity matching condition, which is determined by the dispersion characteristics of the PCF, not only peak power of the pump pulse. In order to further extend the short-wave spectrum, other methods are required, for example, changing the structural characteristic of the PCF, etc.
Thulium-doped fiber laser is one of the most promising high power mid-infrared sources which attracts lots of attention recently. However, there is no comprehensive theoretical model which can be used for precise simulation of the performance of the pulsed Thulium-doped fiber laser. A combined theoretical model is proposed in this work by integrating the laser rate equation and Ginzburg-Landau equation into the iteration process. Good agreement between the experiments and simulations is achieved in a Thulium-doped fiber amplifier employing counter-pumping scheme.
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