We report on the recent progress in the design and development of completely monolithic linearly-polarized pulsed fiber amplifiers seeded by Q-switched fiber laser oscillators. We demonstrate near diffraction limited beam quality with ~20kW peak power (1mJ pulse energy, ~45nsec) pulses and an average power ~20W at 20kHz repetition rate with linearly polarized (>17dB PER) output from a simple MO...

In this paper 16 channels DWDM system at 10Gbps has been investigated with Semiconductor optical amplifier at 0.8 nm channel spacing and the performance has been calculated on the basis of bit error rate, quality factor and optical output power. It is observed that the signal can be transmitted with acceptable BER and Q-factor using Semiconductor optical amplifier at low signal input power of -...

We report on a Tm:fiber master oscillator power amplifier (MOPA) system producing 109 W CW output power, with >15 dB polarization extinction ratio, sub-nm spectral linewidth, and M2 <1.25. The system consists of polarization maintaining (PM) fiber and PM-fiber components including tapered fiber bundle pump combiners, a single-mode to large mode area mode field adapter, and a fiber-coupled isola...

We present a single-frequency, single-mode, plane-polarized ytterbium-doped all-fiber master oscillator power amplifier source at 1060 nm generating 264 W of continuous-wave output power. The final-stage amplifier operated with a high gain of 19 dB and a high conversion efficiency of 68%. There was no evidence of rollover from stimulated Brillouin scattering even at the highest output power, an...