Fabrication of chirped and tilted fiber Bragg gratings and suppression of stimulated Raman scattering in fiber amplifiers.

Stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) is one of the main limits for fiber lasers further power scaling. We report on the suppression of the stimulated Raman scattering in fiber laser amplifier using chirped and tilted fiber Bragg gratings (CTFBGs) for the first time. In this paper, we design and fabricate a CTFBG used to suppress the SRS in 1090 nm fiber laser output, and establish a system to test the effect of suppression. A maximum suppression ratio nearly 25 dB is achieved. Experimental results demonstrate that CTFBGs can increase the Raman threshold and promote the slope efficiency of the whole system, which is significant for further power scaling in high power oscillators and amplifiers.

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