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Single-Frequency Pulsed Fiber Lasers

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Pulsed lasing is an important operation regime of single-frequency fiber lasers, owing to its irreplaceable applications in laser ranging, optical fiber sensing, and coherent LIDAR. Considering the single-mode oscillation nature of the single-frequency laser, the straightforward scheme to realize pulse operation is to periodically switch the gain or loss of the cavity. In addition, the pulse width of a single-frequency laser is limited to nanosecond level owing to the Fourier transform limitation. In this chapter, we focus on the scheme of modulating the cavity loss to achieve pulsed output, i.e., Q-switched fiber laser. Although various Q-switching schemes have been proposed previously, only specific schemes can be exploited in a single-frequency laser cavity. Here we first introduce the general principle of Q-switching and then several Q-switching schemes (both active and passive) based on the high-gain short-cavity fiber laser. Finally, other methods for the realization of single-frequency pulsed fiber lasers such as gain switching and extra cavity modulating the laser power are also introduced.

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Yang, Z., Li, C., Xu, S., Yang, C. (2019). Single-Frequency Pulsed Fiber Lasers. In: Single-Frequency Fiber Lasers. Optical and Fiber Communications Reports, vol 8. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6080-0_5

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