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Q-switched all-fiber lasers with saturable absorbers

✍ Scribed by A.S. Kurkov

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Weight: 152 KB
Volume: 8
Category: Article
ISSN: 1612-2011
DOI: 10.1002/lapl.201010142

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✦ Synopsis

In this brief review we consider the relatively new design of the pulsed fiber lasers, namely lasers with the fiber saturable absorber (FSA). Main advantage of this design consists in a possibility to realize a simple all-fiber scheme of Qswitched laser. We show that such lasers can be based on the different types of the fiber absorber and operate in the different spectral ranges. Up to now a set of the pulsed lasers were build. Pulse energy from several μJ to several hundred μJ was demonstrated. Pear power was changed from tens W to several kW with the pulse duration from 50 ns to 1 μs. We show that described principles of Q-switching can be applied for other types of the fiber lasers. Also, new fiber absorbers are suggested.

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