A high power diode-pumped continuous-wave Tm:YAP laser with a piece of silicon chip as the output coupler (Si-OC) is demonstrated. A maximum output power of 13 W with a beam quality of M2 ≤ 1.45 at 1931 nm was obtained, corresponding to an optical-to-optical efficiency of 31%, and a slope efficiency of 33%. To our best knowledge, this is the first report of utilizing silicon as a output coupler on solid Tm:YAP laser system. The mechanism of silicon output coupler on Tm:YAP laser is also discussed in this letter. Because of the intriguing characteristics of silicon, such as high damage threshold, low cost and long-pass filter property, double-sided polishing single crystal silicon chip can perform as a good output coupler in high power laser system near 2 μm region.
We have demonstrated the dissipative solitons generated in an ytterbium-doped fiber laser cavity using graphene oxide as the saturable absorber. The lasing light, centered at 1077.2 nm, has a 3 dB spectral bandwidth of ∼1.12 nm . Under different launched pump powers and appropriate polarization orientations, harmonic mode-locked of second- and third-order pulse trains have been achieved; the corresponding 3-dB bandwidth and pulse duration have been detected.
We demonstrate a saturable absorber (SA) based on cladding-filled graphene in a specially designed and manufactured photonic crystal fiber (PCF) for the first time. The saturation absorption property is achieved through the evanescent coupling between the guided light and the cladding-filled graphene layers. To boost the mutual interaction, the PCF is designed to contain five large air holes in the cladding and small-core region. Employing this graphene-PCF SA device, we construct an erbium-doped all-fiber laser oscillator and achieve mode-locked operation. This device can pave the way for high power and all-fiber applications of photonics with graphene with some unique advantages, such as single-mode operation, nonlinearity enhancement, high-power tolerance, environmental robustness, all-fiber configuration, and easy fabrication.
We investigate on a multi-wavelength operation erbium-doped fiber laser Q-switched by a graphene-based saturable absorber. Stable pulses were generated with the widths from 6.9 to 1.5 μs, energies from 40.4 to 130.2 nJ and repetition rates from 68.32 to 132.9 kHz, when the pump power increased from 142.32 to 441.86 mW. A fiber Bragg grating with five reflective peaks was inserted into the fiber ring through an optical circulator, resulting in a stable output of five-lasing-wavelength output. The laser can perform as a low-cost and easy-built all fiber light source, and has potential applications in the fields where pulses at multi-wavelength operation are needed, i.e., temperature or strain fiber sensors.
A 145-m long microstructured optical fiber taper was fabricated on the industry drawing tower. The fiber taper had good uniformity of structure as the outer diameter decreased from 110 to 80 μm. Its optical attenuation was measured 52 dB/km at 1060 nm, and the zero dispersion wavelengths along the slow axis were calculated decreasing from 1000 to 915 nm. Watt-level supercontinuum spanning from 430 to 2050 nm was obtained as the fiber taper pumped by a 1064 nm picosecond laser source. The nonlinear mechanism of spectral broadening is carefully investigated with the support of numerical simulations.
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