Open AccessThe Challenge in Realizing Truly Agile Fiber Lasers
Author(s) -
Berendt Martin Ole,
Barbosa Hugo,
Melo Miguel
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
laser technik journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1863-9119
pISSN - 1613-7728
DOI - 10.1002/latj.201700015
Subject(s) - fiber laser , materials science , laser , amplifier , optics , optoelectronics , computer science , power (physics) , physics , cmos , quantum mechanics
Abstract The master oscillator power amplifier (MOPA) fiber laser has been around for several years but the bulk of applications use Q‐switched fiber lasers. Now, with the processing capabilities of the Q‐switched fiber laser fully explored, the MOPA fiber laser is getting revived attention. Laser‐diode seeded MOPAs hold promise of arbitrarily modulated high‐power laser output. Pulse‐pumping the amplifiers to handle ON/OFF gating and low repetition rate pulse trains without overshoot or undershoot is of special interest.