High brightness 1.5 μm pulsed fiber laser for lidar: From fibers to systems

Guillaume Canat; Laurent Lombard; Agnès Dolfi; Matthieu Valla; Christophe Planchat; Béatrice Augère; Pierre Bourdon; Véronique Jolivet; Claudine Besson; Yves Jaouën; Sylvia Jetschke; Sonia Unger; Johanes Kirchhof; Evguenii Gueorguiev; Christophe Vitre

doi:10.1080/01468030802269431

High brightness 1.5 μm pulsed fiber laser for lidar: From fibers to systems

Guillaume Canat
, Laurent Lombard
, Agnès Dolfi
, Matthieu Valla
, Christophe Planchat
, Béatrice Augère
, Pierre Bourdon
, Véronique Jolivet
, Claudine Besson
, Yves Jaouën
, Sylvia Jetschke
, Sonia Unger
, Johanes Kirchhof
, Evguenii Gueorguiev
, Christophe Vitre

ONERA Office National d'Etudes et Recherches Aerospatiales
DOTA-ILDD, ONERA
Institüt für Physikalische Hochtechnologie
Keopsys SA

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Abstract

In this article, we discuss the designs and performances of narrow-linewidth erbium-ytterbium fiber MOPA for coherent detection lidars. We report on pedestal and multifilament core erbium-ytterbium large mode area fibers specially designed to generate high energy and good beam quality. Pulse energy of 220 μJ with M² < 1.4 are obtained with all-fiber three amplification stages. An additional amplifier stage generates 600 μJ with M² < 2.4. We present the first results of pulsed fiber lidar wake vortices detection using a coherent detection lidar. Maturation of this technology leads to compact all-fiber lasers. Several commercial laser sources for lidars are finally described.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	422-439
Number of pages	18
Journal	Fiber and Integrated Optics
Volume	27
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/01468030802269431
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2008

Keywords

Brillouin scattering
EYDFA
Erbium-ytterbium fibers
Large mode fiber
Lidar

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High brightness 1.5 μm pulsed fiber laser for lidar: From fibers to systems

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