Author(s)

Ziwei Wang, Songtao Du, Zhaokun Wang, Jing He, Yunrong Wei, Qihong Lou, Jun Zhou

1Shanghai Key Laboratory of All Solid-State Lasers and Applied Techniques, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China 2University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
Shanghai Key Laboratory of All Solid-State Lasers and Applied Techniques, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China.

We report a high-peak-power, single-polarized master oscillator power amplification system employing polarization- maintaining Yb-doped rod-type photonic crystal fiber. The MOPA system comprises of a Q-switched microchip laser generating ~630ps pulses at 8.6 kHz repetition-rate and two amplification stages employing double cladding fiber and rod-type PCF respectively. The MOPA system obtains narrow spectral bandwidth, single-polarized pulses of 9W maximum output average power, corresponding to peak power of 1.7MW.

Lasers; MOPA; Rod-type PCF; Single Polirization; High-peak-power

Z. Wang, S. Du, Z. Wang, J. He, Y. Wei, Q. Lou and J. Zhou, "High Peak Power, Single-polarized, Sub-nanoseconds Pulses Generation of a Yb-doped Rod-type Photonic Crystal Fiber Amplifier," Optics and Photonics Journal, Vol. 3 No. 2B, 2013, pp. 69-72. doi: 10.4236/opj.2013.32B017.