University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc.

Nathan Bodnar

Martin C Richardson

Robert Bernath

Jessica Pena

Daniel Thul

Haley Kerrigan

Danielle Reyes

Patrick Roumayah

Justin Cook

Soumya Sarang

Alex Sincore

Nicholas Vail

A thulium fiber is described. The thulium fiber is designed for in-band pumping. The thulium fiber may take advantage of higher efficiencies and lower thermal load associated with in-band pumping. The thulium fiber may include a triple clad design. The triple clad design may offer a balance between thermal effects, modulation instability thresholds, and pump absorption. The thulium fiber may provide greater than 5 kilowatts of continuous wave (CW) output power across the 1950-2100 nanometer region.

High power in-band pumped, triple clad thulium fiber

A laser system may include one or more seed lasers to generate a pulsed seed beam. The system may further include a pulse pattern generator to generate an intermediate patterned burst-mode beam from at least one laser pulse from the pulsed seed beam, where the intermediate patterned burst-mode beam includes one or more pulse bursts, and where each of the one or more pulse bursts includes a series of laser pulses with a selected pattern of inter-pulse spacings. The system may further include two or more power amplifiers to amplify the intermediate patterned burst-mode beam to form an amplified patterned burst-mode beam, where at least two of the power amplifiers amplify different portions of the intermediate patterned burst-mode beam, and where the amplified patterned burst-mode beam includes a series of amplified pulse bursts including amplified laser pulses with the selected pattern of inter-pulse spacings.

Tailored laser pulse trains for burst-mode illumination

A laser system may include one or more seed lasers to generate a pulsed seed beam including one or more laser pulses, a pulse pattern generator to generate an intermediate patterned burst-mode beam from at least one laser pulse from the pulsed seed beam, where the pulse pattern generator includes splits the at least one laser pulse from the pulsed seed beam along two or more delay paths and combines light along the two or more delay paths to a common optical path, and where the intermediate patterned burst-mode beam includes laser pulses with a selected pattern of inter-pulse spacings associated with the two or more delay paths. The laser system may further include power amplifiers to amplify the intermediate patterned burst-mode beam to form an amplified patterned burst-mode beam, where the amplified patterned burst-mode beam includes amplified laser pulses with the selected pattern of inter-pulse spacings.

A diamond Raman laser may include a diamond Raman oscillator (DRO) with a first diamond gain medium, a seed laser providing a seed beam at a seed wavelength, and a cavity configured to resonate at a first-Stokes wavelength, the first-Stokes wavelength corresponding to first-Stokes emission in diamond when pumped with the seed wavelength, and where the DRO outputs a first-Stokes beam at the first-Stokes wavelength. The diamond Raman laser may further include a diamond Raman amplifier (DRA) to amplify the first-Stokes beam and generate an amplified first-Stokes beam, where the DRA includes two or more diamond Raman amplification stages, each including one or more second diamond gain media, and one or more optical filters to filter light with a second-Stokes wavelength generated in at least one of the one or more second gain media.

Multi-stage Raman amplifier

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Nathan Bodnar