High-power master-oscillator power-amplifier with optical vortex output
High-power master-oscillator power-amplifier with optical vortex output
A high-power master-oscillator power-amplifier with optical vortex output is reported. The master oscillator for an optical vortex seed beam is a simple two-mirror Nd:YAG laser using a fiber-based pump beam conditioning scheme. The seed is amplified in a double-clad multimode fiber amplifier end-pumped by a high-power diode laser at 975nm yielding 10.7W of continuous-wave output at 1064nm in the first-order Laguerre–Gaussian beam with M2 ~ 2.11 for an absorbed pump power of 17.5W, corresponding to a slope efficiency of ~59 %. The ring-shaped intensity profile and the wave front handedness of the seed beam were well preserved in the fiber amplifier. The prospects of power scaling via this approach are discussed.
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Kim, D.J.
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Kim, J.W.
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Clarkson, W.A.
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October 2014
Kim, D.J.
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Kim, J.W.
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Clarkson, W.A.
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Kim, D.J., Kim, J.W. and Clarkson, W.A.
(2014)
High-power master-oscillator power-amplifier with optical vortex output.
Applied Physics B, 117 (1), .
(doi:10.1007/s00340-014-5855-5).
Abstract
A high-power master-oscillator power-amplifier with optical vortex output is reported. The master oscillator for an optical vortex seed beam is a simple two-mirror Nd:YAG laser using a fiber-based pump beam conditioning scheme. The seed is amplified in a double-clad multimode fiber amplifier end-pumped by a high-power diode laser at 975nm yielding 10.7W of continuous-wave output at 1064nm in the first-order Laguerre–Gaussian beam with M2 ~ 2.11 for an absorbed pump power of 17.5W, corresponding to a slope efficiency of ~59 %. The ring-shaped intensity profile and the wave front handedness of the seed beam were well preserved in the fiber amplifier. The prospects of power scaling via this approach are discussed.
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e-pub ahead of print date: 9 May 2014
Published date: October 2014
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/372642
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