Abstract
Eye-safe pulsed laser sources are needed for remote sensing applications such as range finding and active imaging. Er-doped fiber-based sources combine the benefits of efficient direct eye-safe operation and reliability through monolithic fiber assemblies. The reported energy per pulse has been limited in the past to less than 2 mJ for various configurations [1,2]. More recently, we have shown that up to 11 mJ could be extracted at 1 kHz using a multimode Er-doped fiber in a Q-switched laser configuration [3]. In this work, we report on new fibers characterization in a MOPA (Master Oscillator Power Amplifier) arrangement, and demonstrate up to 17 mJ energy at 1 kHz (11 mJ at 5 kHz), with hundreds of ns pulses and a suitable beam quality.
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