Kilowatt high-efficiency narrow-linewidth monolithic fiber amplifier operating at 1034 nm

Nader A. Naderi; Angel Flores; Brian M. Anderson; Ken Rowland Jr.; Iyad Dajani

doi:10.1117/12.2211803

9 March 2016 Kilowatt high-efficiency narrow-linewidth monolithic fiber amplifier operating at 1034 nm

Nader A. Naderi, Angel Flores, Brian M. Anderson, Ken Rowland Jr., Iyad Dajani

Proceedings Volume 9728, Fiber Lasers XIII: Technology, Systems, and Applications; 972803 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2211803
Event: SPIE LASE, 2016, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Power scaling investigation of a narrow-linewidth, Ytterbium-doped all-fiber amplifier operating at 1034 nm is presented. Nonlinear stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) effects were suppressed through the utilization of an external phase modulation technique. Here, the power amplifier was seeded with a spectrally broadened master oscillator and the results were compared using both pseudo-random bit sequence (PRBS) and white noise source (WNS) phase modulation formats. By utilizing an optical band pass filter as well as optimizing the length of fiber used in the pre-amplifier stages, we were able to appreciably suppress unwanted amplified spontaneous emission (ASE). Notably, through PRBS phase modulation, greater than two-fold enhancement in threshold power was achieved when compared to the WNS modulated case. Consequently, by further optimizing both the power amplifier length and PRBS pattern at a clock rate of 3.5 GHz, we demonstrated 1 kilowatt of power with a slope efficiency of 81% and an overall ASE content of less than 1%. Beam quality measurements at 1 kilowatt provided near diffraction-limited operation (M² < 1.2) with no sign of modal instability. To the best of our knowledge, the power scaling results achieved in this work represent the highest power reported for a spectrally narrow all-fiber amplifier operating at < 1040 nm in Yb-doped silica-based fiber.

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Nader A. Naderi, Angel Flores, Brian M. Anderson, Ken Rowland Jr., and Iyad Dajani "Kilowatt high-efficiency narrow-linewidth monolithic fiber amplifier operating at 1034 nm", Proc. SPIE 9728, Fiber Lasers XIII: Technology, Systems, and Applications, 972803 (9 March 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2211803

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