Recent advances in 3.5 μm erbium-doped mid-infrared fiber lasers

Ori Henderson-Sapir; Andrew Malouf; Nathaniel Bawden; Jesper Munch; Stuart Jackson; David J. Ottaway

doi:10.1109/JSTQE.2016.2615961

Recent advances in 3.5 μm erbium-doped mid-infrared fiber lasers

Ori Henderson-Sapir, Andrew Malouf, Nathaniel Bawden, Jesper Munch, Stuart Jackson, David J. Ottaway

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Abstract

The performance of mid-infrared Er³⁺-doped fiber lasers has dramatically improved in the last few years. In this paper we present an overview of the progress in 3.5 μm fiber lasers based on the dual-wavelength pumping approach. The cross-section of the excited state absorption transition used by the 1973 nm second pump is found experimentally. A numerical simulation of the expected Q-switched behavior of this fiber laser is presented. This shows that increasing the power of the 977 nm pump is important to achieve high peak power pulses.

Original language	English
Article number	0900509
Pages (from-to)	1-9
Number of pages	9
Journal	IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics
Volume	23
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTQE.2016.2615961
Publication status	Published - 2017

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Keywords

2.8 μm
3.5 μm
dual-wavelength
Er3+
erbium
fiber
infrared
Laser
midinfrared
model
numerical
optics
optimization
simulation
ZBLAN

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Henderson-Sapir, O., Malouf, A., Bawden, N., Munch, J., Jackson, S., & Ottaway, D. J. (2017). Recent advances in 3.5 μm erbium-doped mid-infrared fiber lasers. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 23(3), 1-9. [0900509]. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTQE.2016.2615961

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