Dongchen Jin

Stable passively Q-switched and gain-switched Yb-doped all-fiber laser based on a dual-cavity with fiber Bragg gratings.

We demonstrate a stable passively Q-switched and gain-switched Yb-doped all-fiber laser cladding-pumped by a continuous fiber-coupled 976 nm laser diode. By use of an all-fiber dual-cavity, the efficient elements of the laser mainly include the fiber Bragg gratings and rare-earth doped fiber, allowing the oscillator to be integrated in a compact size with reliable and stable output. In this scheme, an efficient laser output with 45 ns pulse width, 62 μJ pulse energy, and 1.4 kW peak power operating at 1081 nm was obtained. To the best of our knowledge, this is the minimum pulse width in this similar kind of all-fiber configuration at present. Sequential nanosecond pulses were obtained at the repetition rate of several to tens of kHz with the variation of the diode pumping power. Effects of laser parameters such as pump power, cavity length, external-cavity wavelength, and FBG reflectivity on laser performance were also presented and discussed.

High-power all-fiber femtosecond chirped pulse amplification based on dispersive wave and chirped-volume Bragg grating

We report a high-power all-fiber-integrated femtosecond chirped pulse amplification system operating at 1064 nm, which consists of a dispersive wave source, a fiber stretcher, a series of ytterbium-doped amplifiers and a chirped volume Bragg grating (CVBG) compressor. The dispersive wave is generated by an erbium-doped mode-locked fiber laser with frequency shifted to the 1 μm region in a highly nonlinear fiber. With three stages of ytterbium-doped amplification, the average output power is scaled up to 125 W. Through CVBG, the pulse duration is compressed from 525 ps to 566 fs, the average output power of 107 W with a high compression efficiency of 86% is achieved, and the measured repetition rate is 17.57 MHz, corresponding to the peak power of 10.8 MW.

Ultraviolet-enhanced supercontinuum generation in uniform photonic crystal fiber pumped by a giant-chirped fiber laser

We report on an ultraviolet-enhanced supercontinuum generation in a uniform photonic crystal fiber pumped by a giant-chirped mode-locked Yb-doped fiber laser. We find theoretically and experimentally that the initial pluses with giant chirp leads more initial energy transferred to the dispersive waves in visible and ultraviolet wavelength. An extremely wide optical spectrum spanning from 370 nm to beyond 2400 nm with a broad 3 dB spectral bandwidth of 367 nm (from 431 nm to 798 nm) is obtained. Over 36% (350 mW) of the total output power locates in the visible and ultraviolet regime between 370 nm and 850 nm with a maximum spectral power density of 1.6 mW/nm at 550 nm.

High-power, high signal-to-noise ratio single-frequency 1 μm Brillouin all-fiber laser

We demonstrate a high-power, high signal-to-noise ratio single-frequency Brillouin all-fiber laser with high slope efficiency at 1 μm wavelength. The laser is pumped by an amplified single-longitudinal-mode distributed Bragg reflector fiber laser with a linewidth of 33 kHz. By optimizing the length of the Brillouin ring cavity to 10 m, stable single-frequency Brillouin fiber laser is obtained with 3 kHz linewidth owing to the linewidth narrowing effect. At the launched pump power of 2.15 W, the Brillouin fiber laser generates maximum output power of 1.4 W with a slope efficiency of 79% and the optical signal-to-noise ratio of 77 dB.

High power, high signal-to-noise ratio single-frequency 1μm Brillouin all-fiber laser

We demonstrate a high-power, high signal-to-noise ratio single-frequency 1 μm Brillouin all-fiber laser with high slope efficiency. The Brillouin laser system consists of a high-power single-frequency fiber laser and a single-pass Brillouin ring cavity. The high-power single-frequency fiber laser is one-stage master-oscillator power amplifier with the maximum output power of 10.33 W, the signal-to-noise ratio of 50 dB and the slope efficiency of 46%. The Brillouin fiber laser is pumped by the amplified laser with a linewidth of 33 kHz and an output power of 2.61 W limited by the damage threshold of the optical isolator. By optimizing the length of the Brillouin ring cavity to 10 m, stable singlefrequency Brillouin fiber laser is obtained with 3 kHz linewidth owing to the linewidth narrowing effect. At the launched pump power of 2.15 W, the Brillouin fiber laser generates maximum output power of 1.4 W with a slope efficiency of 79% and the optical signal-to-noise ratio of 77 dB.

1570 nm Nanosecond pulse generation from Er/Yb co-doped all-fiber dual-cavity laser oscillator with fiber-based passive Q-switch

A 1570nm nanosecond all-fiber dual-cavity laser with fiber-based passive Q-switch is demonstrated. Stable pulse trains can be obtained with the repetition rate varying from 14kHz to 156kHz, and the maximum average power is 2.2W.

Ultraviolet-enhanced supercontinuum generation in uniform photonic crystal fiber pumped by giant-chirped fiber lasers

We report on an ultraviolet-enhanced supercontinuum generation in a uniform photonic crystal fiber pumped by a giant-chirped mode-locked Yb-doped fiber laser. We find experimentally that the initial pluses with giant chirp leads more initial energy transferred to the dispersive waves in visible and ultraviolet wavelength. An extremely wide optical spectrum spanning from 370 nm to beyond 2400 nm with a broad 3 dB spectral bandwidth of 367 nm (from 431 nm to 798 nm) is obtained. Over 36% (350 mW) of the total output power locates in the visible and ultraviolet regime between 370 nm and 850 nm with a maximum spectral power density of 1.6 mW/nm at 550 nm. In addition, a blue-enhanced supercontinuum generation pumped by a giant-chirped SESAM mode-locked ytterbium-doped fiber laser is studied. An extremely wide optical spectrum spanning from 380 nm to 2400 nm with total power of 3 W is obtained.

Nanosecond Yb-Doped Monolithic Dual-Cavity Laser Oscillator With Large Core Fiber

A high pulse energy Yb-doped all-fiber dual-cavity laser oscillator is reported, based on the pulse generation mechanism of passive Q-switch with large core fiber saturable absorber. Sequential pulses with 49-ns pulse duration and 21-W average power operating at 1080 nm can be achieved in the scheme using the Yb-doped fiber with the core-diameter of 10 μm. The repetition rate varies from ~1 to 113.6 kHz, while the incident pump power increases. The monolithic all-fiber dual-cavity oscillator can achieve the highest pulse energy of 187 μJ. Moreover, using the all-fiber scheme with the core-diameter of uniform 20 μm, the single-pulse energy can be further scaled up to 484 μJ, which is directly the output from the all-fiber oscillator without additional amplifiers.