Power and wavelength scaling using semiconductor disk laser-bismuth fiber MOPA systems

Juuso Heikkinen; Regina Gumenyuk; Antti Rantamäki; Jari Lyytikäinen; Tomi Leinonen; Igor Zolotovskii; Mikhail Melkumov; Evgeny M. Dianov; Oleg G. Okhotnikov

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4 March 2015 Power and wavelength scaling using semiconductor disk laser-bismuth fiber MOPA systems

Juuso Heikkinen, Regina Gumenyuk, Antti Rantamäki, Jari Lyytikäinen, Tomi Leinonen, Igor Zolotovskii, Mikhail Melkumov, Evgeny M. Dianov, Oleg G. Okhotnikov

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Proceedings Volume 9349, Vertical External Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers (VECSELs) V; 93490E (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2076805
Event: SPIE LASE, 2015, San Francisco, California, United States

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We present a master oscillator power amplifier (MOPA) system that comprises a mode-locked semiconductor disk laser (SDL) emitting at 1.33 μm and a bismuth-doped fiber amplifier. The mode-locked SDL was fabricated by wafer bonding an InP-based gain section with a GaAs-based distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) using (3-Mercaptopropyl)-trimethoxysilane. The bismuth-doped fiber amplifier was pumped with a continuous wave SDL emitting at 1.18 μm. The MOPA system produced pulses at a repetition rate of 827 MHz with a pulse energy of 0.62 nJ, which corresponds to an average output power of more than 0.5 W.

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Juuso Heikkinen, Regina Gumenyuk, Antti Rantamäki, Jari Lyytikäinen, Tomi Leinonen, Igor Zolotovskii, Mikhail Melkumov, Evgeny M. Dianov, and Oleg G. Okhotnikov "Power and wavelength scaling using semiconductor disk laser-bismuth fiber MOPA systems", Proc. SPIE 9349, Vertical External Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers (VECSELs) V, 93490E (4 March 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2076805

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