Master Oscillator Power Amplifier Laser System

A number of applications like high precision ranging and imaging, LIDAR, micro-materials processing, UV spectroscopy in chemistry and biochemistry will benefit from energetic (300-500uJ) high beam quality sub-nanosecond (~200ps) laser pulses. To address the needs of these applications the new MOPA microlasers from STANDA utilize Master Oscillator Power Amplifier platform that combines company's renowned microlaser oscillators together with a highly efficient amplifying stage developed recently. Due to the MOPA configuration the unique spatial and temporal characteristics of the microlasers are preserved while their output power is raised to the multiwatt level. All Master Oscillators as well as Power Amplifiers are produced at Standa facilities.

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We value user working space and always try to fit into the tightest environment of a laboratory set up, measuring device or other equipment. The MOPA series continues the traditions of STA-01 microlasers: being the smallest passively Q-switched DPSS laser on the market without compromise to optical performance. Fiber-coupled pump diodes are housed inside the electronic controller greatly reducing heat load and footprint of the laser head. Pump radiation is delivered via 2m long metal-shielded fiber optic cables enabling convenient integration of the laser system into the user equipment. Due to the high pump and output powers the optimized air cooling or water cooling of laser head is required.

Without compromising their compactness and beam quality the STA-01-MOPA-TH STA‑01‑MOPA series lasers can be equipped with second and third harmonic generation crystals for nonlinear frequency conversion. STANDA can offer green and UV lasers with 532 and 355 nm wavelengths accordingly.

Due to the MOPA configuration different modifications of output parameters are possible. Contact us or find your local Standa if you have laser specification other than given in the table of standard units.

Applications • Marking • Electronics (PCB Processing) • Biomedical • Instrumentation • LIDAR and Laser Ranging • Sensing and Monitoring • Micro dissection • Semiconductor Inspection • Material processing • MALDI-TOF • TiSa, OPO pumping • Laser Induced Fluorescence (LIF) • Spectroscopy (LIBS, LIPS and PIV) • Micromachining • Nonlinear Optics (Harmonics and Supercontinuum Generation) • Diamond drilling (SiC) and other hard materials




Models STA-01-MOPA-1 STA-01-MOPA-2 STA-01-MOPA-3 STA-01-MOPA-4 STA-01-MOPA-SH-1 STA-01-MOPA-SH-2 STA-01-MOPA-SH-3 STA-01-MOPA-SH-4 STA-01-MOPA-TH-1 STA-01-MOPA-TH-2 STA-01-MOPA-TH-3 STA-01-MOPA-TH-4 Wavelength, nm 1064 532 355 Average Output Power (max), W 3 2.5 0.2 5 1.5 1.2 0.100 2.5 0.75 0.7 0.050 1.250 Pulse Energy, µJ 300 50 200 100 150 10 100 50 75 5 50 25 Pulse Width (FWHM), ns 0.8 0.4 0.2 0.5 0.7 0.4 0.2 0.5 0.5 0.4 0.2 0.7 Repetition Rate (max), kHz 10 50 1 50 10 50 1 50 10 50 1 50 Peak Power, MW up to 1.2 Beam Divergence (1/e2, full angle), mrad < 6 Pulse Spectral Structure SLM Spatial Mode TEM00 Beam Propagation Factor M2 < 1.2 Polarization Ratio (linear) > 100 : 1 Power Stability RMS, % <1% Operating Voltage, V AC 100 – 230 Power Consumption, W <100 Operating Temperature, °C 22±11, non-condensing Interfaces USB, External Trigger (TTL rising edge) Dimensions of Laser Head, mm 79 (W) x 37.5 (H) x 75 (L) Dimensions of Controller, mm 471 (W) x 157 (H) x 458 (L) Warranty 12 months Laser Head Cooling Required: 12WSC1 Cooling system Thermal Resistance, K/W ≤0.05 Laser Controller Cooling Provided Required: 12WSC1 Cooling system Provided Required: 12WSC1 Cooling system Provided Required: 12WSC1 Cooling system Thermal Resistance, K/W ≤ 0.05 0.05 0.05

1 - Is specified an ambient temperature at which the laser parameters exactly meet the specifications in the table.
Pulse duration of a particular model is factory set to a fixed value from the given range. Contact your Standa representative or Standa directly for more details.
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MOPA (Master Oscillator Power Amplifier)

MOPA

The master oscillator produces a highly coherent beam, and an optical amplifier is used to increase the power of the beam while preserving its main properties. The master oscillator has no need to be powerful, and has no need to operate at high efficiency because the efficiency is determined mainly by the power amplifier.

With a MOPA instead of a laser, it can be easier to reach the required performance e.g. in terms of linewidth, wavelength tuning range, beam quality or pulse duration if the required power is very high. This is because various performance aspects are decoupled from the generation of high powers. This gives extra flexibility, e.g. when a gain-switched laser diode is used as a seed laser.

The same aspects apply to other kinds of modulation, e.g. intensity or phase modulation: it may be advantageous to modulate the low-power seed laser, or to use an optical modulator between seed laser and power amplifier, rather than to modulate a high-power device directly. Slower power modulation may be done by adjusting the amplifier's pump power, without significantly affecting e.g. the obtained pulse duration or wavelength.

The combination of an existing laser with an existing amplifier (or an amplifier chain) may be simpler than developing a new laser with higher output power.

The optical intensities are lower in an amplifier, compared with the intracavity intensities in a laser.

However, the MOPA approach can also have disadvantages:

The resulting laser noise tends to be higher, since an amplified source can not reach the shot noise level (→ amplifier noise). Effects of drifts of the seed power may be suppressed, however, if the amplifier is operated in a strongly saturated regime.

A MOPA can be sensitive to back-reflections, which are amplified again before entering the master laser. This feedback sensitivity can often be cured only by placing a Faraday isolator behind the amplifier. Particularly for high-power pulsed devices, this can introduce serious limitations.

Stages of the fiber laser

1st: Master Oscillator (this is the stage that will contain the graphene and will produce the pulsing)

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2nd: Single-Mode Power Amplifier

3rd: Double-Clad Power Amplifier

Master Oscillator with graphene as saturable absorber

Master Laser

A master laser is a single-frequency seed laser which is used for, e.g., injection locking of one or several slave lasers.

A master laser often generates an optical power which is well below the output power of the complete laser system; the injection-seeded slave lasers may then be high-power lasers. The modest power requirements for the master laser make it possible to realize a very low level of laser noise, which may be more or less transferred to the whole system. Also, a larger range for wavelength tuning may be accomplished.

The system is a ring cavity with Erbium doped fiber as the lasing medium. The pump laser is moderate power 975 nm diode laser, and there is 20% feedback in the system to stimulate the emission. We have a graphene saturable absorber to accomplish pulsed operation of the master laser. The 80% output of 1550 nm light is then passed on to the first stage of the power amplifier.

Erbium-doped fiber amplifier

Erbium-doped Fiber Amplifiers

Pumping of Er 3+ by 980-nm light and stimulated emission in the 1.5-μm region

Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers are the by far most important fiber amplifiers in the context of long-range optical fiber communications; they can efficiently amplify light in the 1.5-μm wavelength region, where telecom fibers have their loss minimum.

The 1550-nm signal enters initial Wavelength Division Multiplexer (WDM) from the output of the master oscillator, as well as the 980-nm pump signal from the high power diode. The 980-nm signal pumps the Er-doped fiber and the 1550-nm signal stimulates the emission of the 1550-nm photons. This produces signal amplification in the 1.5-μm wavelength region. After passing the final WDM, the 980-nm signal is dumped whereas the 1.5-μm signal is passed to the next stage of the amplifier.

Length of fiber

The lengths of Erbium-doped fiber are chosen based on RP Fiber Power simulation:

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