Tapered amplifier laser with frequency-shifted feedback

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Authors
  • A. Bayerle
  • S. Tzanova
  • P. Vlaar
  • B. Pasquiou
Publication date 22-10-2016
Journal SciPost Physics
Article number 002
Volume | Issue number 1 | 1
Number of pages 9
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP)
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP) - Van der Waals-Zeeman Institute (WZI)
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI)
Abstract We present a frequency-shifted feedback (FSF) laser based on a tapered amplifier. The laser operates as a coherent broadband source with up to 370GHz spectral width and 2.3 μs coherence time. If the FSF laser is seeded by a continuous-wave laser a frequency comb spanning the output spectrum appears in addition to the broadband emission. The laser has an output power of 280mW and a center wavelength of 780nm. The ease and flexibility of use of tapered amplifiers makes our FSF laser attractive for a wide range of applications, especially in metrology.
Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.21468/SciPostPhys.1.1.002
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