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Broad Bandwidth, All-fiber, Thulium-doped Photonic Crystal Fiber Amplifier for Potential Use in Scaling Ultrashort Pulse Peak Powers
| Title: | Broad Bandwidth, All-fiber, Thulium-doped Photonic Crystal Fiber Amplifier for Potential Use in Scaling Ultrashort Pulse Peak Powers. |
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| Name(s): |
Sincore, Alex, Author Richardson, Martin, Committee Chair Shah, Lawrence, Committee Member Amezcua Correa, Rodrigo, Committee Member , Committee Member University of Central Florida, Degree Grantor |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Date Issued: | 2014 | |
| Publisher: | University of Central Florida | |
| Language(s): | English | |
| Abstract/Description: | Fiber based ultrashort pulse laser sources are desirable for many applications; however generating high peak powers in fiber lasers is primarily limited by the onset of nonlinear effects such as self-phase modulation, stimulated Raman scattering, and self-focusing. Increasing the fiber core diameter mitigates the onset of these nonlinear effects, but also allows unwanted higher-order transverse spatial modes to propagate. Both large core diameters and single-mode propagation can be simultaneously attained using photonic crystal fibers.Thulium-doped fiber lasers are attractive for high peak power ultrashort pulse systems. They offer a broad gain bandwidth, capable of amplifying sub-100 femtosecond pulses. The longer center wavelength at 2 ?m theoretically enables higher peak powers relative to 1 ?m systems since nonlinear effects inversely scale with wavelength. Also, the 2 ?m emission is desirable to support applications reaching further into the mid-IR.This work evaluates the performance of a novel all-fiber pump combiner that incorporates a thulium-doped photonic crystal fiber. This fully integrated amplifier is characterized and possesses a large gain bandwidth, essentially single-mode propagation, and high degree of polarization. This innovative all-fiber, thulium-doped photonic crystal fiber amplifier has great potential for enabling high peak powers in 2 ?m fiber systems; however the current optical-to-optical efficiency is low relative to similar free-space amplifiers. Further development and device optimization will lead to higher efficiencies and improved performance. | |
| Identifier: | CFE0005260 (IID), ucf:50611 (fedora) | |
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2014-05-01 M.S. Optics and Photonics, Optics and Photonics Masters This record was generated from author submitted information. |
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| Subject(s): | Photonic crystal fiber -- ultrashort pulse -- thulium -- all-fiber -- pump combiner -- PCF -- Tm:PCF -- broad bandwidth -- large mode area -- peak power -- 2 micron -- 2 ?m -- infrared -- laser amplifier | |
| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0005260 | |
| Restrictions on Access: | campus 2019-05-15 | |
| Host Institution: | UCF |
