Proceedings of 2015 Photonics & Electromagnetics Research Symposium, Prague, July 6 - 9,Page(s)2289-2293
Abstract
We demonstrated a single-frequency retrievable multi-tone all-fiber laser in master-
oscillator power-amplification (MOPA) configuration with the highest recorded power of 670 W.
The seed laser runs in multi-tone regime by phase modulating a single-frequency fiber laser using
a sine wave signal. Power amplification of the multi-tone master oscillator is then implemented
by four cascaded all-fiber power amplifier and a power scaling up to 670 W is achieved. A proof-
of-concept experiment for retrieving single-frequency laser from the high power multi-tone laser
is carried out by implementing a demodulation signal, which is π phase shift of the modulation
signal, on the output laser at a relative low power level. Results indicated that the single-
frequency laser can be retrieved with a sideband suppression of more than 20 dB at the power
level of 670 W. This method may provide a feasible way for power scaling of single-frequency
laser over the SBS limitation in fiber amplifier.
Citation
Rumao Tao,
Rongtao Su,
Xiaolin Wang,
X. J. Xu,
and
Pu Zhou,
"670 W Single-frequency Retrievable Multi-tone All-fiber MOPA," Proceedings of 2015 Photonics & Electromagnetics Research Symposium, Prague, July 6 - 9,Page(s)2289-2293