We demonstrate burst-mode operation of a polarization-maintaining Yb-doped fiber amplifier capable of generating 60 μJ pulses within bursts of 11 pulses with extremely uniform energy distribution facilitated by a novel feedback mechanism shaping the seed of the burst-mode amplifier. The burst energy can be scaled up to 1 mJ, comprising 25 pulses with 40 μJ average individual energy. The amplifi...

We report on a high-power narrow-linewidth pulsed laser source emitting at a wavelength of 257 nm. The system is based on a master oscillator power amplifier architecture, with Yb-doped fiber preamplifiers, a Yb:YAG single crystal fiber power amplifier used to overcome the Brillouin limitation in glass fiber and nonlinear frequency conversion stages. This particularly versatile architecture all...

In this paper, comparison of various advance data modulation formats in 4×10Gbps wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) optical communication system using YDFA (ytterbium doped fiber amplifier), EDFA (erbium doped fiber amplifier) and Raman amplifier has been carried out. The advance modulation formats under investigation include NRZ (non return to zero), RZ (return to zero), CSRZ (carrier-supp...

We generate linearly polarized, 287 W average-power, 5.5 ps pulses using a cryogenically cooled Yb:YAG amplifier at a repetition rate of 78 MHz. An optical-to-optical efficiency of 41% is obtained at 700 W pump power. A 6 W, 0.4 nm bandwidth picosecond seed source at 1029 nm wavelength is constructed using a chirped-pulse fiber amplification chain based on chirped volume Bragg gratings. The com...

Recent theoretical work predicts that the quantum-limited noise figure of a x(3)-based fiber-optical parametric amplifier operating as a phase-insensitive in-line amplifier or as a wavelength converter exceeds the standard 3-dB limit at high gain. The degradation of the noise figure is caused by the excess noise added by the unavoidable Raman gain and loss occurring at the signal and the conver...

The double-pass erbium-doped zirconia fiber amplifier (EDZFA) is proposed and demonstrated to provide a wide-band amplification as well as flat-gain operation in both the Cand L-band regions using only a single-gain medium. The proposed amplifier utilizes an erbium-doped zirconia fiber (EDZF) with erbium ion concentration of 2800 ppm as a gain medium. The medium is fabricated in a ternary glass...

We have designed and developed a grating based thulium (Tm) doped fiber laser with ~150 nm tuning range which is used as the master oscillator in a master oscillator power amplifier (MOPA) thulium fiber laser system. Due to thermal instability in the grating used for tuning, the MO could produce a power up to 4.5 W, beyond which the oscillator became unstable. Injecting the seed laser into a bi...

For the need of higher capacity and speed, optical fiber communication system is being extensively used all over the world for telecommunication, video and data transmission purposes. Optical communication systems are employed in order to meet the challenge of high bandwidth but signal attenuation is the major limitation. Electronic regeneration of signal is used to overcome the problem but it ...

We report on generation of 850fs mode-locked pulses at 1065nm in a completely fiber integrated format. The figure-of-eight, fiber laser source incorporates anomalous dispersion compensation by using a holey fiber and a short length, high gain, double-clad Yb-fiber amplifier.

A novel very-large-mode-area asymmetric rod-type fiber was fabricated and experimentally characterized. The fiber supports effective and robust single-mode operation for a core diameter of 66μm making it attractive for high power amplifier systems. OCIS codes: (060.2280) Fiber design and fabrication, (030.4070) Modes, (060.2320) Fiber optics amplifiers and oscillators.