Efficient and tunable operation of a Tm-doped fibre laser

We report on improved performance from a silica based thulium doped fibre laser. Under excitation at 810 nm this system has demonstrated a near theoretical maximum slope efficiency of 36% (84% photon conversion efficiency), corresponding t mW of laser output power at 1900 nm for 167 mW of absorbed p...

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Published inOptics communications Vol. 75; no. 3; pp. 283 - 286
Main Authors Hanna, D.C., Percival, R.M., Smart, R.G., Tropper, A.C.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Amsterdam Elsevier B.V 01.03.1990
Elsevier Science
Subjects
Doped-insulator lasers and other solid state lasers
Exact sciences and technology
Fundamental areas of phenomenology (including applications)
Lasers
Optics
Physics
Thulium
Tunable laser
Optical fiber
Solid state laser
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Summary:We report on improved performance from a silica based thulium doped fibre laser. Under excitation at 810 nm this system has demonstrated a near theoretical maximum slope efficiency of 36% (84% photon conversion efficiency), corresponding t mW of laser output power at 1900 nm for 167 mW of absorbed power. In addition we have used a birefringent filter to continuously tune the laser over a range of 276 nm, from 1780 to 2056 nm.
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ISSN:0030-4018
1873-0310
DOI:10.1016/0030-4018(90)90533-Y