9 W average power, 150 kHz repetition rate diamond Raman laser at 1519 nm, pumped by a Yb fibre amplifier

Dziechciarczyk, Łukasz and Huang, Zhimeng and Demetriou, Giorgos and Cheng, Dan and Pidishety, Shankar and Feng, Yujun and Feng, Yutong and Wang, Guozheng and Lin, Huaiqin and Zhu, Sheng and Lin, Di and Hawkins, Thomas W. and Dong, Liang and Kemp, Alan and Nilsson, Johan and Savitski, Vasili (2019) 9 W average power, 150 kHz repetition rate diamond Raman laser at 1519 nm, pumped by a Yb fibre amplifier. In: 2019 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/Europe – European Quantum Electronics Conference, 2019-06-23 - 2019-06-27.

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Abstract

Commercially available pulsed fibre lasers at ~1.5 μm have many uses in imaging, defense, communications and light radar (LIDAR) [1]. For 3D scanning LIDAR, higher signal-to-noise ratio requires lasers with high average power and high pulse repetition rate (ideally several MHz) for faster scanning rate, whereas to improve distance resolution requires pulse durations <10 ns [2,3]. One limitation of the pulsed fibre lasers at ~1.5 μm is scaling to high average powers [4]. Raman frequency conversion of high average power fibre master oscillator power amplifier (MOPA) systems at ~1 μm is a potential alternative. The large Raman shift and Raman gain of diamond allows two-stage Raman conversion to ~1.5 μm for ~1 μm pumping [5]. Excellent thermal properties make diamond suitable for high average powers [6]. Much work has been done on conversion of 1.064 μm lasers to 1.485 μm using diamond [7]; however, the “eye-safety” requirements for LIDAR typically call for wavelengths above 1.5 μm, due to the order of magnitude higher Maximum Permissible Exposure limit [8]. Developing such a diamond Raman laser (DRL) was the major motivation for this research.

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