ASE suppression in high-gain solid-state amplifiers by a leak method

作者:Zhang, Yongliang*; Ye, Haixian; Li, Mingzhong; Zheng, Jiangang; Wei, Xiaofeng; Gao, Song; Deng, Qinghua; Jiang, Xinying; Yan, Xiongwei; Wang, Zhenguo
来源:Laser Physics, 2013, 23(7): 075802.
DOI:10.1088/1054-660X/23/7/075802

摘要

A leak method was developed to suppress amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) in large-aperture high-gain solid-state amplifiers. The gain medium edges are processed into an arris. The ASE ray will undergo reflection several times at the arris surface when it propagates to the gain medium edges, and most of its power will leak out. This leak method was tested in an experiment, in which a piece of commonly used gain medium was processed for contrast. The maximal increase of the gain value was 5.26% with the maximal pump power.