The following paper is devoted to an amplifier with gain control (Variable Gain Amplifier). role of amplification and addressed separately from the very beginning, achieve greatest possible independence required parameters both for itself (gain size, bandwidth, noise figure) controller (energy consumption control, distortion). core consists operational voltage feedback (VFB) in inverting circui...

We report on master-oscillator power amplification using a broad-area laser diode (BAL) emitting at a wavelength of λ = 780 nm. The master oscillator is an injection-locked single-mode diode laser delivering a seeding beam of 35 mW, which is amplified in double pass through the BAL up to 410 mW. After beam shaping and spatial filtering by a single-mode fibre we obtain a clean Gaussian beam with...

Progress in the development of highly brilliant pump modules based on novel high-energy-class diode laser bars is presented, targeting long-pulse (2 ms) application in pumping Yb:CaF2 amplifier crystals. Bars with long resonators and high fill factors are used for low resistance and efficient cooling. Advanced extremedouble asymmetric epitaxial structures are used for high efficiency at high po...

We report soliton pulse formation and amplification and soliton-self-frequency shifting in an anomalously dispersive, Yb31-doped holey fiber amplifier seeded with pulses from an Yb31-doped, 1.06-mm fiber based modelocked oscillator. Our fiber-based system provides a highly practical, all-diode-pumped, continuously tunable femtosecond pulse source operational in the important and difficult to re...

The thermoelastic effect was used to produce high-frequency, broadband ultrasound in water. A pulsed diode laser, followed by an erbium-doped fiber amplifier, was focused onto a light-absorbing film deposited on a glass substrate. Conversion efficiency was improved by over 20 dB using an elastomeric film instead of a more commonly used metallic one. Radiation pattern measurements show that cons...

A laser-diode pumped Q-switched single-frequency Nd:YAG MOPA operating at 100 Hz was used to generate tunable mid-infrared radiation between 6.27 µm and 8.12 µm by employing a cascaded parametric arrangement consisting of degenerate parametric master-oscillator power amplifier using a large aperture periodically-poled Rb:KTiOPO4 which in turn pumped a ZnGeP2 (ZGP) nonplanar RISTRA OPO. The nonc...

We report the development of a compact, tunable synchronously pumped photonic crystal fiber (PCF)-based optical parametric oscillator (FOPO). The oscillator is pumped using a gain-switched laser diode producing 220 ps pulses around 1062 nm, amplified in a ytterbium doped amplifier to peak powers of 3.5 kW. The FOPO produces anti-Stokes pulses at wavelengths between 757 and 773 nm, with duration...

1 Abstract We have tested a series of Ytterbium doped large core fibers operating near 10Kpps and producing pulses of approximately 1ns. We have achieved 850μJ/pulse resulting in peak powers in excess of 2MW with 0.4ns pulses and near diffraction limited beams. In another fiber, we have achieved over 1.5mJ/pulse with pulses of 900ps corresponding to 1.65MW of peak power and M of 2.5. In the lat...

Improvements in the power level of sources near 1550 nm and in the efficiency of waveguide frequency doublers enabled us to lock a frequency-doubled source directly to the 5S(1/2) ? 5D(5/2) two-photon transitions near 778 nm. We obtained a sufficiently powerful second-harmonic signal, exceeding 2 mW, by doubling an external-cavity diode laser that was amplified by an erbium-doped fiber amplifie...