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Towards High-Power Densely Step-Tunable Mid-Infrared Fiber Source From 4.27 to 4.43 μm in CO_2-Filled Anti-Resonant Hollow-Core Silica Fibers

Journal

JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY
Volume 40, Issue 8, Pages 2503-2510

Publisher

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2021.3137828

Keywords

Gas lasers; Fiber lasers; Absorption; Pump lasers; Power lasers; Laser excitation; Optical fiber communication; Carbon dioxide; fiber lasers; gas lasers; hollow-core fibers; mid-infrared

Funding

  1. Outstanding Youth Science Fund Project of Hunan Province Natural Science Foundation [2019JJ20023]
  2. National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [11974427, 12004431]
  3. State Key Laboratory of Pulsed Power Laser [SKL2020ZR05, SKL2021ZR01]
  4. Science and Technology innovation program of Hunan Province [2021RC4027]
  5. Postgraduate Scientific Research Innovation Project of Hunan Province [CX20200017]

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Soft-glass fiber lasers have attracted significant attention due to their potential for compact, stable, and highly efficient mid-infrared emission. However, the immature manufacturing technique of soft glass fibers and limited types of doped rear-earth have restricted power enhancement and wavelength expansion. This study demonstrates the use of gas-filled hollow-core fibers to achieve high-power, tunable mid-infrared fiber gas lasers.
Soft-glass fiber lasers have attracted lots of attentions as they are most likely to achieve compact, stable, and highly efficient mid-infrared emission, which has unique applications in many fields. However, due to the immature manufacturing technique of soft glass fibers and the limited types of doped rear-earth, laser power enhancing and wavelength expansion beyond 4 mu m are greatly restricted. Gas-filled hollow-core fibers (HCFs) have been proved to be an effective way to generate mid-infrared emission. We previously demonstrated a continuous-wave 4.3 mu m fiber source with power of 82 mW in CO2-filled HCFs. Here, the maximum output power is increased to 557 mW, and laser wavelengths densely step-tunable from 4276 to 4428 nm including 46 lines have been demonstrated. The output spectrum and power properties with gas pressure and pump power are investigated in detail. In addition, the influence of buffer gases on laser characteristics is studied experimentally for the first time. This work provides significant guidance for the development of high-power tunable mid-infrared fiber gas lasers.

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