Experimental investigation of mid-infrared Er:ZBLAN fiber laser

Authors

  • Łukasz Pajewski Department of Telecommunications and Teleinformatics Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 27, 50-370 Wrocław http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9475-2814
  • Łukasz Sójka Department of Telecommunications and Teleinformatics Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 27, 50-370 Wrocław
  • Samir Lamrini LISA laser products OHG, Max-Planck-Str. 1, Katlenburg-Lindau 37191, Germany
  • Trevor Benson Mid-Infrared Photonics Group, George Green Institute for Electromagnetic Research, Faculty of Engineering, Unversity of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK
  • Angela Seddon Mid-Infrared Photonics Group, George Green Institute for Electromagnetic Research, Faculty of Engineering, Unversity of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK
  • Sławomir Sujecki Department of Telecommunications and Teleinformatics Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 27, 50-370 Wrocław

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4302/plp.v12i3.989

Abstract

In this contribution the diode pumped high-power Er:ZBLAN laser operating at around 2.8 µm is reported. The laser produces 2 W output power with the slope efficiency of 24 % measured with respect to the incident pump power.

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2020-09-30

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Łukasz Pajewski, Łukasz Sójka, S. Lamrini, T. Benson, A. Seddon, and S. Sujecki, “Experimental investigation of mid-infrared Er:ZBLAN fiber laser”, Photonics Lett. Pol., vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 73–75, Sep. 2020.

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