Abstract
In this Letter, a watt-level single-frequency fiber oscillator at 2050 nm was demonstrated for the first time, to the best of our knowlegde, in a linear laser cavity with a piece of an un-pumped Tm3+/Ho3+ co-doped fiber serving as a saturable absorber. With delicate optimization of mode filtering effect of the dynamic gratings formed in the saturable absorber, a maximum single-frequency laser output power of 1.2 W was achieved under a total bidirectional pump power of 5.8 W at 1570 nm, and the corresponding optical efficiency is 20.7%. This is, to the best of our knowledge, the highest power of a single-frequency fiber oscillator at the wavelength above 2 µm.
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