740-watt level optical tap coupler using side-polished large-mode-area double clad fibers for a high power fiber laser

Power Scaling Fiber Amplifiers Using Very-large-mode-area Fibers

Investigation of Thermal Dispersion and Thermally-Induced Birefringence on High-Power Double Clad Yb:Glass Fiber Laser

In this work the effects of heat generation on the modes of Yb:Glass double clad fiber laser were investigated. The thermal dispersion and thermally-induced birefringence were considered when the gain medium becomes an anisotropic medium. The results showed considerable modifications of laser modes profiles, in particular for transfer magnetic (TM) and transfer electric (TE) modes which their p...

Next Generation Large Mode Area Fiber Technologies for High Power Fiber Laser Arrays

This program has successfully accomplished its main objective in that large core single-mode Ge-doped and Yb-doped CCC fibers have been developed as a platform for monolithically-integrated building blocks (individual laser channels) of high power beam-combined fiber laser arrays. Robust single-mode performance of CCC fibers with core sizes of up to ~60?m has been rigorously demonstrated. Vario...

Design considerations for large-mode-area polarization maintaining double clad fibers

Large-mode-area double clad fibers offer excellent efficiency and beam quality, high output power as well as lightweight, robust and reliable packaging. The addition of polarization maintaining property though use of well-know Panda-structure has further increased the interest in double clad fibers, especially in fibers doped with ytterbium (Yb). Many material processing, military and R&D appli...

Watt-level ultrahigh-optical signal-to-noise ratio single-longitudinal-mode tunable Brillouin fiber laser.

A watt-level ultrahigh optical signal-to-noise ratio single-longitudinal-mode (SLM) tunable Brillouin fiber laser (BFL) has been demonstrated. By optimizing the length of the single mode fiber (SMF) cavity at 11 m and its output ratio at 60%, 1.04 W output power, as well as stable SLM operation is obtained at 2.24 W pump power. The single pass cavity BFL has the advantage that the Brillouin pum...