Kilowatt-level near-diffraction-limited and linear-polarized Ytterbium-Raman hybrid nonlinear amplifier based on polarization selection loss mechanism.

Ytterbium-Raman cascaded oscillators with linearly polarized output are designed and achieved based on polarization selection loss (PSL) mechanism for the first time. The 1120 nm laser cavity is designed with fully non polarization-maintained (NPM) fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) and NPM active fiber while the 1080 nm laser cavity is designed based on polarization-maintained (PM) FBGs and PM active fiber. By using PSL mechanism in 1080 nm cavity, even with fully NPM 1120 nm cavity, both linear-polarized 1120 nm and 1080 nm lasers are achieved in the output port of the cascaded oscillators. Based on the new designed cascaded seeds, a high power polarization-maintained Yb-Raman hybrid nonlinear amplifier is established for further power scaling of the 1120 nm laser. In the nonlinear amplifier, only 21-meter-long active fiber and 1.5-meter-long passive fiber is used for power transferring from 1080 nm to 1120 nm. Output power of 1181 W is achieved at central wavelength of 1120 nm with the M(2) factor of <1.2 and polarization-extinction ratio (PER) of 18.2 dB. As far as we known, the output power of this all fiber format is the highest one in 1120 nm with linear polarization. This type of high power Yb-Raman nonlinear amplifier design with linear polarization can be further extended to Yb-Raman amplifying the wavelength range of 1100-1200 nm.

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