Gain-switched 3 μm dysprosium-doped fluoride fiber laser pumped at 1.7 μm

Abstract

To the best of our knowledge, we demonstrated a gain-switched 3 μm dysprosium-doped fluoride fiber laser pumped by a 1706.5 nm pulsed thulium-doped fiber master oscillator power amplifier for the first time. The maximum average power of the 3 μm pulsed laser was 50 mW with a slope efficiency of 12.3%, a repetition rate of 100 kHz, and a pulse width of 283 ns. This work exhibits the potential of 1.7 μm pulse pumped dysprosium-doped fluoride fiber laser as a platform for developing pulsed sources in the 3 μm region.