光纤激光器概述.pdf

Term Paper EE/OPE 454/553 – LASERS Fall 2010 Title Fiber Laser Submitted by Lin Yang To Dr. J. D. Williams 1. Introduction It has been more than 40 years since the first GaAs semiconductor lasers was created in 1962. Nowadays, semiconductor lasers have been widely used in laser communications, CD storage, and laser inspection. With increasing continuous power output of semiconductor laser, the applications of it was extended farther. The main application range of the semiconductor laser is high power diode pumped solid state lasers (DPSSL). This technique integrated the advantage of semiconductor laser and the advantage of solid laser. DPSSL converts high-energy photons with short wavelength to low-energy photons with longer wavelength. Thus, a portion of energy converts into heat without radiation transition. Emission and removal of the energy is becoming a significant technique for diode pumped solid lasers. In literature and application, there are a lot of alternative methods. One method is to configure laser media to have a very slender shape like optical fiber. There are several reasons for this method. Firstly, the guiding of light allows extremely long gain regions providing good cooling conditions. Secondly, fibers have high surface area to volume ratio which allows efficient cooling. In addition, the fiber’s waveguide properties tend to reduce thermal distortion of the beam. The fiber laser in this context is the laser using an optical fiber as its active gain medium. In 1964, the first generation of glass laser in the world is fiber laser.