100W high beam quality rod-type photonic crystal fiber amplifier for picosecond pulses
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摘要: 使用光子晶体光纤棒作为增益介质,设计了皮秒脉冲放大器的实验光路。通过实验研究分析了光子晶体光纤棒皮秒脉冲放大器的输出功率、斜率效率与光光转换效率、光束质量、重复频率、脉宽、光谱。获得了最大平均功率为101.7 W,重复频率为30 MHz,脉宽为6.4 ps,横向和纵向光束质量分别为1.111,1.017的近衍射极限输出,放大器的斜率效率达到了65%,光光转换效率达到了58.9%。Abstract: We used the rod-type photonic crystal fiber as a gain medium and designed an experimental system for picosecond pulse amplifier. Output power, slope efficiency and optical-to-optical conversion efficiency, beam quality, repetition rate, pulse width, spectrum of the rod-type photonic crystal fiber picosecond amplifier were analyzed. As a result, we got a maximum average power of 101.7 W, repetition rate of 30 MHz, pulse width of 6.4 ps, beam quality of Mx2=1.111, My2=1.017 near diffraction limit laser with slope efficiency of 65% and optical-to-optical conversion efficiency of 58.9%.
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表 1 泵浦光功率、信号光功率、光-光转换效率
Table 1. Pump power, signal power and optical-to-optical conversion efficiency
pump current/A pump power/W signal power/W optical-to-optical conversion efficiency/% 1 24.57 10.8 19.5 1.5 34.6 18.3 35.5 2 45.6 26.2 44.3 2.5 55.7 33.3 49.0 3 66.7 39.9 50.8 3.5 77.6 46.6 52.3 4 88.6 54.6 54.9 4.5 99.6 62.1 56.3 5 111.0 69.5 57.2 5.5 121.9 76.0 57.4 6 132.9 83.3 58.2 6.5 142.8 91.6 59.9 7 152.0 96.6 59.6 7.5 162.4 101.7 58.9 -
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