High-Peak Power, All-Fiber Passively Q-Switched Laser Using a Sm-Doped Fiber Saturable Absorber

被引:11
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作者
Hu, Man [1 ]
He, Bing [1 ]
Liu, Houkang [1 ]
Yang, Yifeng [1 ]
Zheng, Ye [1 ]
Chen, Xiaolong [1 ]
Zhang, Lei [1 ]
Zhou, Jun [1 ]
机构
[1] Chinese Acad Sci, Shanghai Inst Opt & Fine Mech, Shanghai Key Lab All Solid State Laser & Appl Tec, Shanghai 201800, Peoples R China
基金
中国国家自然科学基金;
关键词
Brillouin scattering; fiber lasers; fiber nonlinear optics; lasers; optical pulses; optical saturation; Q-switched lasers; STIMULATED BRILLOUIN-SCATTERING;
D O I
10.1109/JLT.2014.2329013
中图分类号
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
An all-fiber passively Q-switched Yb-doped fiber laser with fiber saturable absorber (SA) based on a piece of Sm-doped fiber is presented. For the first time, we observe the fast stimulated Brillouin scattering Q-switched process in an Yb/Sm all-fiber laser and obtain 41 ns pulses and 1.7 kW maximum peak power. Comparedwith the reported traditional SAQ-switched process, the pulse energy and peak power are both improved an order of magnitude. Furthermore, a traditional SA Q-switched process with 450 ns pulsewidth and 7.5 W peak power is also obtained in the same structure by increasing the feedback of cavity's output end.
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页码:2510 / 2515
页数:6
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