High power pulsed sources based on fiber amplifiers

Guillaume Canat; Yves Jaouen; Jean Claude Mollier; Jean Pierre Bouzinac; Jean Pierre Cariou

High power pulsed sources based on fiber amplifiers

Guillaume Canat
, Yves Jaouen
, Jean Claude Mollier
, Jean Pierre Bouzinac
, Jean Pierre Cariou

ONERA Office National d'Etudes et Recherches Aerospatiales

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Abstract

Cladding-pumped rare-earth-doped fiber laser technologies are currently among the best sources for high power applications. Theses extremely compact and robust sources appoint them as good candidate for aeronautical and space applications. The double-clad (DC) fiber converts the poor beam-quality of high-power large-area pump diodes from the 1^st cladding to laser light at another wavelength guided in an active single-mode core. High-power coherent MOPA (Master Oscillator Power Amplifier) sources (several 10W CW or several 100W in pulsed regime) will soon be achieved. Unfortunately it also brings nonlinear effects which quickly impairs output signal distortions. Stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) and optical parametric amplification (OPA) have been shown to be strong limitations. Based on amplifier modeling and experiments we discuss the performances of these sources.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	631-637
Number of pages	7
Journal	European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP
Issue number	554
Publication status	Published - 1 Jun 2004
Event	Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Space Optics (ICSO 2004) - Toulouse, France Duration: 30 Mar 2004 → 2 Apr 2004

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High power pulsed sources based on fiber amplifiers

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