Efficient extraction of high pulse energy from partly quenched highly Er3+-doped fiber amplifiers

Rojas Hernandez, Pablo G.; Belal, Mohammad; Baker, Colin; Pidishety, Shankar; Feng, Yutong; Friebele, E. Joseph; Shaw, L. Brandon; Rhonehouse, Daniel; Sanghera, Jasbinder; Nilsson, Johan. 2020 Efficient extraction of high pulse energy from partly quenched highly Er3+-doped fiber amplifiers. Optics Express, 28 (12). 17124-17142. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.385426

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Abstract/Summary

We demonstrate efficient pulse-energy extraction from a partly quenched erbium-doped aluminosilicate fiber amplifier. This has a high erbium concentration that allows for short devices with reduced nonlinear distortions but also results in partial quenching and thus significant unsaturable absorption, even though the fiber is still able to amplify. Although the quenching degrades the average-power efficiency, the pulse energy remains high, and our results point to an increasingly promising outcome for short pulses. Furthermore, unlike unquenched fibers, the conversion efficiency improves at low repetition rates, which we attribute to smaller relative energy loss to quenched ions at higher pulse energy. A short (2.6 m) cladding-pumped partly quenched Er-doped fiber with 95-dB/m 1530-nm peak absorption and saturation energy estimated to 85 µJ reached 0.8 mJ of output energy when seeded by 0.2-µs, 23-µJ pulses. Thus, according to our results, pulses can be amplified to high energy in short highly Er-doped fibers designed to reduce nonlinear distortions at the expense of average-power efficiency.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.385426
ISSN:	1094-4087
Date made live:	03 Jun 2020 14:21 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/527868

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