100 kHz Narrow-Linewidth Burst-Mode MOPA Laser System With Uniform Envelope

• Published in: Frontiers in physics Vol. 10
• Main Authors: Yu, Xin, Zhang, Shanchun, Peng, Jiangbo, Cao, Zhen, Gao, Long, Liu, Wenbei
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A 25.05.2022
• Subjects: burst-mode; COV; double-pass amplification; MOPA; narrow-linewidth
• ISSN: 2296-424X; 2296-424X
• DOI: 10.3389/fphy.2022.914970

In this study, a 100-kHz narrow-linewidth burst-mode laser system combined with a master oscillator power amplifier (MOPA) structure was reported with a stable pulse burst profile over 2 ms duration. A theoretical model was established to characterize and compensate the variation characteristics of coefficient of variation (COV) within a burst envelope for the double-pass three-stage amplification system, in terms of different parameter factors. Simulated results yielded similar tendency with the measured ones. For a stable burst envelope with a COV of 2.72% and 2.93%, output pulse energy at a 100 kHz repetition rate was scaled up to 1.08 and 4.38 mJ in the case of an input average pulse energy of 8.6 and 116.51 nJ, respectively. Corresponding M x 2 and M y 2 values with 2.2 and 2.4 were endowed with 1.08 mJ output single-pulse energy and 2.7 and 2.1 for 4.38 mJ pulse energy. The spectral linewidth of amplified pulses was measured to be less than 83.1 and 67.9 MHz, with respect to output pulse duration of 10.3 and 96.1 ns, respectively.