Analysis and evaluation of the power amplifier device

We developed a master oscillator power amplifier (MOPA) type fiber amplifier for the separation of the Ca-48 isotope by using a fiber laser. The ytterbium (Yb)-doped end-capped rod-type photonic crystal fiber (PCF) was used as a gain medium of MOPA amplifier. The PCFs used in our experiments were a 56-cm and an 81-cm rod-type end-capped Yb-doped double-clad PM fibers 'DC-285/100-PM-Yb-Rod', with a 100-μm core (NA 0.02) and a 285-μm cladding (NA 0.6) fabricated by NKT Photonics. The mode field diameter (MFD) of the rod-type PCF was 75-μm, and an absorption efficiency of 30 dB/m at 976 nm and a low NA 0.02 helped to sustain the excellent lasing beam quality. We obtained an output power of 112 W at a pump power of 380 W with a repetition rate of 150 kHz. The measured pulse width was 13 ns at 150 kHz, 1056 nm. The laser beam quality shows a single mode amplification characteristics with a beam quality factor values of M2 are 2 -3. The PCF launching efficiency reached a maximum value of 86.7% with an average efficiencies of above 80%. At a pump power of 250 W and seed power input of 4 W, the CW PCF amplifier was found to generate average output powers of 138 W, 110 W, and 82 W at 1056-nm, 1070-nm, and 1089-nm wavelengths, respectively. The amplified PCF output beam had a line width of 70 MHz full width at half maximum (FWHM). These PCF amplified beams had good beam qualities with M2values of less than 1.8 at all three wavelengths. The gain saturation seed input power in the 81-cm PCF was found to be ∼6 W at 1056 nm. The temperature of the PCF core reached over 230 .deg. C at the pumping section of the PCF. The temperatures of the end-cap heads on both the pumping and the output end-cap sides were 81.4 .deg. C and 35.7 .deg. C, respectively. The PCF amplifier maintained good polarization mode characteristics with an average DOP of over 87%. The slight decrease in the DOP oat output powers over 170 W output power may have been caused by a variation in the hole diameter and an asymmetry in the PCF structure. Yb-doped rod-type PCF amplifiers and lasers are potentially useful light sources for many industrial, scientific, ocean lidar, and remote sensing applications