Narrowband, tunable, frequency-doubled, erbium-doped fiber-amplifed transmitter.
We report on the development of a fiber-based laser transmitter designed for active remote sensing spectroscopy. The transmitter uses a master oscillator power amplifier (MOPA) configuration with a distributed feedback diode-laser master oscillator and an erbium-doped fiber amplifier. The output from the MOPA is frequency-doubled with a periodically poled potassium titanium oxide phosphate crystal. With 35 W of single-frequency peak optical pump power, 8 W of frequency-doubled peak power was achieved. The utility of this single-frequency, wavelength tunable, power scalable laser was then demonstrated in a spectroscopic measurement of diatomic oxygen A band.
Stephen
Mark
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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Laser and Electro-Optics Branch, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA. mark.a.stephen@nasa.gov
Krainak
Michael
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Riris
Haris
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Allan
Graham R
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