High energy pulsed fiber laser transmitters in the C- and L-band for coherent lidar applications

Wei Shi; Nick Moor; Eliot B. Petersen; Dan T. Nguyen; Zhidong Yao; Mark A. Stephen; Arturo Chavez-Pirson; Nasser Peyghambarian

doi:10.1117/12.912548

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24 October 2011 High energy pulsed fiber laser transmitters in the C- and L-band for coherent lidar applications

Wei Shi, Nick Moor, Eliot B. Petersen, Dan T. Nguyen, Zhidong Yao, Mark A. Stephen, Arturo Chavez-Pirson, Nasser Peyghambarian

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Proceedings Volume 8286, International Symposium on Lidar and Radar Mapping 2011: Technologies and Applications; 828602 (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.912548
Event: International Symposium on Lidar and Radar Mapping Technologies, 2011, Nanjing, China

Abstract

We report a monolithic specialized high stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) threshold fiber laser/amplifier in the C and L band based on highly co-doped phosphate glass fibers. This represents an important new development for coherent LIDAR and remote sensing applications. By using single mode polarization-maintaining large core highly Er/Yb codoped phosphate fibers in the power amplifier stages, we have achieved the highest peak power of 2.02 kW at 1530 nm for 105 ns pulses with transform-limited linewidth, and with a corresponding pulse energy of about 0.212 mJ. The achieved high-energy pulses were frequency doubled by using a commercial periodically poled lithium niobate (PPLN) crystal, and the highest SHG peak power of 271 W has been achieved for the SHG pulses at 765 nm that can be used for oxygen coherent remote sensing. In the L band, more than 80 μJ fiber laser pulses at 1572 nm with 1-2 μs pulse width and transform-limited linewidth have been achieved by using a monolithic fiber laser system in MOPA configuration, which can be used for CO2 coherent remote sensing.

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Wei Shi, Nick Moor, Eliot B. Petersen, Dan T. Nguyen, Zhidong Yao, Mark A. Stephen, Arturo Chavez-Pirson, and Nasser Peyghambarian "High energy pulsed fiber laser transmitters in the C- and L-band for coherent lidar applications", Proc. SPIE 8286, International Symposium on Lidar and Radar Mapping 2011: Technologies and Applications, 828602 (24 October 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.912548

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