10 W peak power from a gain-switched picosecond all-semiconductor laser

被引：9

作者：

Häring, R ^{[1
]}

Schmitt, T ^{[1
]}

Bellancourt, AR ^{[1
]}

Lison, F ^{[1
]}

Lauritsen, K ^{[1
]}

Erdmann, R ^{[1
]}

Kaenders, W ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] TOPTICA Photon AC, Munich, Germany

来源：

Solid State Lasers XIV: Technology and Devices | 2005年 / 5707卷

关键词：

MOPA; tapered amplifier; picosecond diode laser; nonlinear optics; frequency conversion; microscopy;

D O I：

10.1117/12.591479

中图分类号：

T [工业技术];

学科分类号：

08 ;

摘要：

Gain-switching of laser diodes might be the most convenient way to generate picosecond laser pulses. The outstanding features of gain-switched laser diodes are a rich choice of wavelength and an easy synchronization to an external trigger source. To broaden the field of applications we pushed the peak power to the 10 W level while maintaining the essential characteristics of the laser source. In a master oscillator power amplifier (MOPA) configuration a tapered amplifier is used to increase the output from 10 mW to 160 mW average power. Second harmonic generation is demonstrated in a single pass setup, which results in 6.5 mW average power at 532 nm with a repetition rate of 80 MHz.

引用

页码：302 / 308

页数：7

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