We propose a 1950nm high average power, large pulse energy narrow-linewidth nanosecond pulse fiber laser. A closed-loop temperature control technique is employed in the design of the seed laser driving circuit system to ensure high power, high wavelength stability, and ultra-low noise characteristics. The acousto-optic modulator (AOM) is used to modulate the pulse of a continuous seed laser, and the rise time of the output pulse can be controlled to obtain the desired pulse shape and width. A master oscillating power amplifier (MOPA) structure is adopted to amplify the modulated power of the laser. Amplified by cascade amplification technique, the average output power of the pulse with the output pulse train has a repetition rate of 10MHz is 3.5W and the pulse width is 300ns, corresponding to a peak power of 1.17kW and a pulse energy of 350μJ. This type of fiber laser has vast possibilities of application especially in lidar and high-precision measurement.
High-power picosecond lasers have a wide range of applications in high-precision drilling, solar cell cutting, and ultrafast spectroscopy. The main oscillator power amplifier (MOPA) technology is an effective scheme to generate high-power picosecond pulses. The thermal effect of the laser gain medium significantly impacts both the laser power output and beam quality. This paper prioritizes constructing a thermal effect model of the gain medium and simulates the temperature field distribution inside the crystal under different pumping modes. Then the pulse string picosecond laser output was successfully realized using the self-developed picosecond fiber seed laser and a two-stage end-face pumped traveling wave amplifier. The maximum average output power of 26.1 W, 28 W, and 29.6 W was obtained when the pulse string contained 2, 5, and 10 sub-pulses, respectively, corresponding to pulse energies of 130.5 µJ, 140 µJ, and 148 µJ at a repetition rate of 200 kHz.
Marine instruments deployed in seawater inevitably experience biofouling, which severely reduces their service life and hinders ocean monitoring. Marine biofouling greatly affects the service life of marine optical instruments and thus has a detrimental impact on ocean monitoring. The fouling community exhibits an attachment succession phenomenon. Macroscopic fouling organisms have adherent and stubborn attachments, whereas microorganisms during early fouling stages are easy to remove, but excessive cleaning also greatly increases energy consumption. Therefore, monitoring biofouling and selecting appropriate removal timing is critical. Due to the complex and dynamic nature of the marine environment, in-situ detection of microbial fouling on optical window of marine optical instrument is challenging because of many factors such as target characteristics, seawater turbidity, light refraction and scattering. Currently, there are no mature technologies available for in-situ fouling detection so as to remove timely micro fouling. To solve this problem, this study deployed thin poly methyl methacrylate (PMMA) coupons within the coastal seawaters of Qingdao, followed by in-situ mapping of photoacoustic signals using a self-built excitation and detection platform, along with along with of transmittance spectrum analysis on fouled PMMA thin films using PerkinElmer LAMBDA750. By combining results from both techniques with microscopic morphology analysis, we explored the relationship between microbial fouling and photoacoustic signal. The research results will provide a novel approach and technical basis for in-situ detection and timely clearance of microbial fouling on optical windows of marine optical instruments.
In this work, an all-fiber high-power cascaded master-oscillator power amplifier (MOPA) system emitting frequency-stabilized single-frequency laser pulses at 1550 nm is presented. An external cavity laser diode with a narrow linewidth of 5 kHz is used as the seed source. Owing to the use of frequency locking components and a matched closed-loop system, the seed source has stable output frequency and power. The on-off extinction ratio of 80 dB is achieved by using digital and analog acousto-optic modulators in series. Then the seed laser is amplified by a three-stage cascaded all-fiber amplifier consisting of two pre-amplifiers and one main amplifier. The MOPA system delivers 200-ns laser pulses with a peak power of 800 W at a repetition rate of 10 kHz. The output laser has an operating linewidth close to the transform-limited. The polarization-extinction ratio is 20 dB, and the optical signal-to-noise ratio is higher than 45 dB. The monolithic all-fiber Erbium-Ytterbium co-doped pulsed fiber amplifier can be used as the high-energy radar transmitter of compact long-distance coherent Doppler lidar systems.
We demonstrated a 3.8 kW-level all-fiberized high-brightness laser with the structure of MOPA (master oscillator power amplification). The maximum output power is ~3894 W with the SRS (stimulated Raman scattering) intensity 10 dB below and ~3812 W with the SRS intensity 20 dB below. The spectrum has a central wavelength of 1080 nm with an FWHM (full width at half-maximum) bandwidth of ~2.2 nm. The slope efficiency of the fiber amplifier with respect to the pump power is ~81%. With a 25-μm-core ytterbium-doped gain fiber of the amplifier and 30-μm-core output fiber, the laser can keep a high beam quality (M2 ) which is estimated to be about 2.6 below.
In this article, a fiber-solid hybrid amplification picosecond laser system is developed. The maximum single pulse energy of the fiber seed source can exceed 50 nJ and the beam quality factor M2 is less than 1.10. After two-stage traveling-wave amplifiers, the final average power of 23.6 W was obtained, corresponding to the maximum single pulse energy of 118 μJ with a repetition rate of 200 kHz. The research results of this article can provide an effective reference for the implementation of a higher-power Nd: YVO4 laser system.
A frequency-tunable Q-switched laser operation at 1064 nm pumped by a wavelength-locked 878 nm semiconductor diode was reported. Under CW operation mode, the maximum output power of 30.5 W was obtained while the pumping power was 55.9 W, and the light-light conversion efficiency was 54.56 %; While in the Q-switching operation mode, the maximum output power of 24.93 W was obtained when the pumping power was 53.05 W, and the light-light conversion efficiency was 46.54 %. Provides stable operation in Q-switching mode between 60 kHz and 300 kHz repetition frequency with a pulse width range of 22.5 ns to 24 ns. The laser with beam quality M 2x=1.21 and M2y=1.33 was obtained.
An erbium-doped fiber laser based on nonlinear polarization rotation (NPR) mode-locking is proposed. On account of the multi-mode interference filtering effect introduced by the laser cavity multi-mode fiber, by adjusting the cavity polarization controllers, the laser generates dual-wavelengths of 1533.48 nm/1547.61 nm, 1549.16 nm/1561.94 nm, 1533.14 nm/1562.96 nm, and triple-wavelengths of 1533.43 nm, 1548.46 nm and 1562.68 nm, corresponding to 388.95 kHz, 388.93 kHz and 388.91 kHz, respectively. The compact structure of the system has potential applications in spectroscopy, optical communication, optical sensing and other fields.
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