Gain-switched holmium-doped fibre laser

Ka S. Wu; David Ottaway; Jesper Munch; David G. Lancaster; Shayne Bennetts; Stuart D. Jackson

doi:10.1364/OE.17.020872

Gain-switched holmium-doped fibre laser

Ka S. Wu, David Ottaway, Jesper Munch, David G. Lancaster, Shayne Bennetts, Stuart D. Jackson

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Abstract

We demonstrate the first gain-switched, singly doped, singlemode holmium-doped silicate glass fibre laser that operates at 2.106□m. Using a gain-switched 1.909-m thulium-doped fibre laser as the pump source, output pulses of energy 3.2 and pulse duration of 150 ns were generated at 80 kHz and slope efficiency of 44%. Pulse stacking within the holmium-doped fibre laser resulted in significantly shorter 70 ns pulses.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	20872-20877
Number of pages	6
Journal	Optics Express
Volume	17
Issue number	23
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.17.020872
Publication status	Published - 2009
Externally published	Yes

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