High power, tunable thulium fiber laser system for atmospheric propagation experiments
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- McComb, Timothy; Shah, Lawrence; Sims, Robert A.; Sudesh, Vikas; Szilagyi, John; Richardson, Martin
- Source
- 2009 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and 2009 Conference on Quantum electronics and Laser Science Conference Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2009 and 2009 Conference on Quantum electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2009. Conference on. :1-2 May, 2009
- Subject
- Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Photonics and Electrooptics
Tunable circuits and devices
Fiber lasers
Power lasers
Optical propagation
Laser stability
Thermal management
Atmospheric waves
Oscillators
Power amplifiers
Mirrors
(140.3510) Lasers, fiber
(140.3600) Lasers, tunable
(010.1300) Atmospheric propagation;
- Language
- ISSN
- 2160-9004
A system for multi-kilometer atmospheric propagation experiments including a master oscillator with ∼108 nm tunability and a power amplifier tested as an oscillator with ∼58% slope efficiency and stable 200 W output power is discussed.