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Single Mode Wavelength-Tunable Thulium Fiber

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Date Issued:
2018
Abstract/Description:
Thulium fiber lasers have the broadest emission wavelength bandwidth out of any rare-earth doped fiber lasers. The emission wavelength starts from 1.75(&)#181;m and ends at around 2.15(&)#181;m, covering a vast swath of the eye safe wavelength region and intersecting with a large portion of mid-infrared atmospheric transmission window. Also, thulium fiber lasers provide the highest average output power of any other rare-earth doped fiber lasers in these wavelength regimes, making them uniquely suited for applications such as remote sensing. At the moment, high power beam propagation of continuous wave laser through the atmosphere in the mid-infrared range is yet to be investigated anywhere. In particular, the effects of atmospheric water vapors on the thulium fiber laser propagation are unknown and are of great research interest. This dissertation identifies the stringent requirements in constructing a high power, single frequency, wavelength tunable, continuous wave thulium fiber laser with the aim of using it to study various atmospheric transmission effects. A fine spectral control scheme using diffraction gratings is explored and improvements are made. Moreover, a fiber numerical simulation model is presented and is used for designing and implementing the thulium fiber laser system. The current limitations of the implemented system are discussed and an improved system is proposed. This will lay the foundation for the future high power atmospheric propagation studies.
Title: Single Mode Wavelength-Tunable Thulium Fiber.
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Name(s): Shin, Dong Jin, Author
Richardson, Martin, Committee Chair
Schulzgen, Axel, Committee Member
Amezcua Correa, Rodrigo, Committee Member
University of Central Florida, Degree Grantor
Type of Resource: text
Date Issued: 2018
Publisher: University of Central Florida
Language(s): English
Abstract/Description: Thulium fiber lasers have the broadest emission wavelength bandwidth out of any rare-earth doped fiber lasers. The emission wavelength starts from 1.75(&)#181;m and ends at around 2.15(&)#181;m, covering a vast swath of the eye safe wavelength region and intersecting with a large portion of mid-infrared atmospheric transmission window. Also, thulium fiber lasers provide the highest average output power of any other rare-earth doped fiber lasers in these wavelength regimes, making them uniquely suited for applications such as remote sensing. At the moment, high power beam propagation of continuous wave laser through the atmosphere in the mid-infrared range is yet to be investigated anywhere. In particular, the effects of atmospheric water vapors on the thulium fiber laser propagation are unknown and are of great research interest. This dissertation identifies the stringent requirements in constructing a high power, single frequency, wavelength tunable, continuous wave thulium fiber laser with the aim of using it to study various atmospheric transmission effects. A fine spectral control scheme using diffraction gratings is explored and improvements are made. Moreover, a fiber numerical simulation model is presented and is used for designing and implementing the thulium fiber laser system. The current limitations of the implemented system are discussed and an improved system is proposed. This will lay the foundation for the future high power atmospheric propagation studies.
Identifier: CFE0007372 (IID), ucf:52084 (fedora)
Note(s): 2018-12-01
M.S.
Optics and Photonics, Optics and Photonics
Masters
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Subject(s): Thulium -- Fiber Lasers -- Spectroscopy -- 2um -- Tunable Fiber Laser -- High Power Laser
Persistent Link to This Record: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0007372
Restrictions on Access: campus 2023-12-15
Host Institution: UCF

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