• Chinese Journal of Lasers
  • Vol. 42, Issue 9, 902003 (2015)
Liu Kun*, Shi Hongxing, Liu jiang, Tan Fangzhou, Zhou Guanrui, and Wang Pu
DOI: 10.3788/cjl201542.0902003 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
Liu Kun, Shi Hongxing, Liu jiang, Tan Fangzhou, Zhou Guanrui, Wang Pu. High-Power All-Fiber Mid-Infrared Supercontinuum Generation Pumped by Noise-Like Pulses[J]. Chinese Journal of Lasers, 2015, 42(9): 902003 Copy Citation Text show less

Abstract

A high-power all-fiber mid-infrared (mid-IR) supercontinuum (SC) generation in a single-mode ZBLAN fiber pumped by amplified noise-like pulses is reported. The mid-IR SC system is a 2 μm master oscillator power amplifier (MOPA) construction including a seed source and two-stage single-mode thulium-doped fiber amplifier (TDFA) followed by a single-mode ZBLAN fiber. A noise-like pulse fiber oscillator with wavepacket width of 1.4 ns and repetition rate of 3.36 MHz at 1966 nm is used as a seed source of mid-IR SC system. In the last stage TDFA, a SC covering from 1.9 to 2.4 μm with maximum output power of 28.5 W is generated. Then, the output SC of TDFA is injected into a 10 m single-mode ZBLAN fiber for further spectrum broadening. At last, a mid-IR SC covering from 1.9 to 3.62 μm with the maximum output power of 14.3 W is generated.
Liu Kun, Shi Hongxing, Liu jiang, Tan Fangzhou, Zhou Guanrui, Wang Pu. High-Power All-Fiber Mid-Infrared Supercontinuum Generation Pumped by Noise-Like Pulses[J]. Chinese Journal of Lasers, 2015, 42(9): 902003
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