Generation of picosecond blue light pulses at 464 nm by frequency doubling an Nd-doped fiber based Master Oscillator Power Amplifier.

We demonstrate 308 mW of single-mode laser emission at 464 nm from a frequency doubled picosecond fiber based Master Oscillator Power Amplifier (MOPA). The laser system consisted of a gain-switched and spectrally narrowed Fabry-Perot laser diode emitting at 928 nm, which was amplified in a two-stage amplifier based on W-type double-clad Nd-doped fibers. Output pulses with a duration of 90 ps at a repetition rate of 41 MHz were frequency-doubled in a periodically poled MgO-doped Congruent Lithium Niobate.

Serrodyne optical frequency shifting for heterodyne self-mixing in a distributed-feedback fiber laser.

We describe an all-fiberized coherent detection system at 1.55 microm using heterodyne self-mixing modulation in a distributed-feedback fiber laser. Frequency shifting of the optical feedback is based on serrodyne phase modulation with an integrated electro-optic modulator, which is a significant advance in the simplification of the self-mixing detection scheme for class B lasers.