A passive coherent beam combination of three nanosecond Yb-doped fiber amplifiers by an all-optical feedback loop is realized by a Dammann grating intracavity spatial filter. By using this diffractive-optics-based spa...A passive coherent beam combination of three nanosecond Yb-doped fiber amplifiers by an all-optical feedback loop is realized by a Dammann grating intracavity spatial filter. By using this diffractive-optics-based spatial filtering technique, three tile-aperture laser beams are phase-locked with a peak power of 1.02kW. The width of the combined pulses is 9.6 ns, and the repetition frequency is 2.208 MHz. The visibility of the far-field interference pattern is up to 82.9%. The results show that this approach can scale to larger arrays and higher powers.展开更多
The stimulated Brillouin scattering （SBS） threshold enhancement factor in a pure white noise linewidth broad- ening Yb-doped fiber amplifier （YDFA） with a short large mode area fiber is theoretically and experimen...The stimulated Brillouin scattering （SBS） threshold enhancement factor in a pure white noise linewidth broad- ening Yb-doped fiber amplifier （YDFA） with a short large mode area fiber is theoretically and experimentally studied. We demonstrate a 1064.08nm, 11.6 GHz finewidth, 1.5 k W output power YDFA with an SBS threshold enhancement of -57 （26 W SBS threshold with single frequency seed）. The output beam is near-diffraction lim- ited with a beam quality factor elM2 = 1.15 and a slope efficiency of up to 87%. No SBS or stimulated Raman scattering effects are observed in the whole power range. Further power sealing is limited by the available pump power in our system.展开更多
A novel technique to suppress stimulated Raman scattering in a high power narrow-band fiber amplifier is reported. By seeding with a comSination of a broadband amplified spontaneous emission seed and a narrowband mast...A novel technique to suppress stimulated Raman scattering in a high power narrow-band fiber amplifier is reported. By seeding with a comSination of a broadband amplified spontaneous emission seed and a narrowband master oscillator seed, the Raman Stokes components can be reduced about 16dB at a total output power of i kW. Ratnan suppression results are depicted in a different wavelengths seeding case and the same wavelength seeding ease, respectively, with different seed power ratios.展开更多
The dependence of Brillouin gain spectrum(BGS)characteristics,including the Brillouin frequency shift(BFS)and the BGS bandwidth,on germanium concentration in large-mode-area Ge-doped passive fibers is investigated the...The dependence of Brillouin gain spectrum(BGS)characteristics,including the Brillouin frequency shift(BFS)and the BGS bandwidth,on germanium concentration in large-mode-area Ge-doped passive fibers is investigated theoretically and experimentally.The simulation results show that the BFS is inversely proportional to GeO_(2)concentration,and the BGS bandwidth initially increases with the augment of GeO_(2)concentration,and then decreases.The BGSs of four fibers with core diameters of 10μm and 20μm for different GeO_(2)concentrations are compared experimentally.Experimental results demonstrate that with the same core diameter,the variations of BFS and BGS bandwidths with GeO_(2)concentration accord with the simulation results.Additionally,the BGS characteristics of three large-mode-area passive fibers with diameters of 10μm,25μm,and 30μm are measured,which confirm that the increasing of the fiber diameters will cause the BGS bandwidth to broaden.We believe that these results can provide valuable references for modulating the high-power narrowlinewidth fiber lasers and Brillouin fiber amplifiers.展开更多
基金Supported by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China under Grant No 2014AA041901, the NSAF Foundation of National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No U1330134, and the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No 61308024.
文摘A passive coherent beam combination of three nanosecond Yb-doped fiber amplifiers by an all-optical feedback loop is realized by a Dammann grating intracavity spatial filter. By using this diffractive-optics-based spatial filtering technique, three tile-aperture laser beams are phase-locked with a peak power of 1.02kW. The width of the combined pulses is 9.6 ns, and the repetition frequency is 2.208 MHz. The visibility of the far-field interference pattern is up to 82.9%. The results show that this approach can scale to larger arrays and higher powers.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos U1330134,61308024 and 11174305the National High-Technology Research and Development Program of China under Grant No 2014AA041901the Shanghai Natural Science Foundation under Grant No 11ZR1441400
文摘The stimulated Brillouin scattering （SBS） threshold enhancement factor in a pure white noise linewidth broad- ening Yb-doped fiber amplifier （YDFA） with a short large mode area fiber is theoretically and experimentally studied. We demonstrate a 1064.08nm, 11.6 GHz finewidth, 1.5 k W output power YDFA with an SBS threshold enhancement of -57 （26 W SBS threshold with single frequency seed）. The output beam is near-diffraction lim- ited with a beam quality factor elM2 = 1.15 and a slope efficiency of up to 87%. No SBS or stimulated Raman scattering effects are observed in the whole power range. Further power sealing is limited by the available pump power in our system.
基金Supported by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China under Grant No 2014AA041901the NSAF Foundation of National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No U1330134the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No 61308024
文摘A novel technique to suppress stimulated Raman scattering in a high power narrow-band fiber amplifier is reported. By seeding with a comSination of a broadband amplified spontaneous emission seed and a narrowband master oscillator seed, the Raman Stokes components can be reduced about 16dB at a total output power of i kW. Ratnan suppression results are depicted in a different wavelengths seeding case and the same wavelength seeding ease, respectively, with different seed power ratios.
基金Project supported by the Key-Area Research and Development Program of Guangdong Province,China(Grant No.2018B090904001)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.61805261,61405202,and 61705243)the Youth Innovation Promotion Association,Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No.2020252)。
文摘The dependence of Brillouin gain spectrum(BGS)characteristics,including the Brillouin frequency shift(BFS)and the BGS bandwidth,on germanium concentration in large-mode-area Ge-doped passive fibers is investigated theoretically and experimentally.The simulation results show that the BFS is inversely proportional to GeO_(2)concentration,and the BGS bandwidth initially increases with the augment of GeO_(2)concentration,and then decreases.The BGSs of four fibers with core diameters of 10μm and 20μm for different GeO_(2)concentrations are compared experimentally.Experimental results demonstrate that with the same core diameter,the variations of BFS and BGS bandwidths with GeO_(2)concentration accord with the simulation results.Additionally,the BGS characteristics of three large-mode-area passive fibers with diameters of 10μm,25μm,and 30μm are measured,which confirm that the increasing of the fiber diameters will cause the BGS bandwidth to broaden.We believe that these results can provide valuable references for modulating the high-power narrowlinewidth fiber lasers and Brillouin fiber amplifiers.
