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Adaptive pulse shape control in a diode-seeded nanosecond fiber MOPA system

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Date

2006

Authors

Vu, K. T.
Malinowski, A.
Richardson, D. J.
Ghiringhelli, F.
Hickey, L. M. B.
Zervas, M. N.

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Optical Society of America

Abstract

We demonstrate active shaping of the driving electrical pulses to a laser diode in order to compensate for the pulse shaping effects of gain saturation in an Yb doped fiber amplifier cascade and to allow the generation of user defined customized output pulse shapes. In particular we demonstrate the generation of square output pulses, which have the potential to significantly increase the maximum pulse energy extractable from an amplifier before the peak power reaches the threshold for SRS, and for high efficiency frequency conversion.

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Keywords: Doping (additives); Laser pulses; Light amplifiers; Optical fibers; Semiconductor lasers; Electrical pulses; MOPA systems; Pulse energy; Adaptive systems

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/101700

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ANU Research Publications

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Optics Express

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Journal article

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Open Access

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DOI

10.1364/OE.14.010996

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