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Power scaling of cladding-pumped Er, Yb-doped fiber lasers at 1.5µm

Power scaling of cladding-pumped Er, Yb-doped fiber lasers at 1.5µm
Power scaling of cladding-pumped Er, Yb-doped fiber lasers at 1.5µm
An efficient double-clad erbium-ytterbium co-doped fiber laser pumped by two high-power diode-stacks at 975nm is reported. Using a simple external cavity configuration at one end of the fiber and the 3.6% Fresnel reflection from a cleaved fiber end facet at the opposite end of the fiber to provide the necessary feedback for lasing, we obtained a maximum output power of 159W at 1565nm in a beam with beam quality factor (M2) similar to 1.9 for 466W of launched pump power. The corresponding slope efficiency with respect to launched pump power was 34%. The maximum output power was limited by the available pump power. A strategy for increasing the output power and improving the beam quality based on the use of a double-clad fiber design with a helical-core trajectory is considered.
Clarkson, W.A.
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Shen, D.
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Wang, P.
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Cooper, L.J.
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Nilsson, J.
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Shen, D.
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Wang, P.
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Cooper, L.J.
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Clarkson, W.A., Shen, D., Wang, P., Cooper, L.J., Nilsson, J. and Sahu, J.K. (2005) Power scaling of cladding-pumped Er, Yb-doped fiber lasers at 1.5µm. SPIE Conference on Lasers and Applications, Warsaw, Poland. (doi:10.1117/12.623660).

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Abstract

An efficient double-clad erbium-ytterbium co-doped fiber laser pumped by two high-power diode-stacks at 975nm is reported. Using a simple external cavity configuration at one end of the fiber and the 3.6% Fresnel reflection from a cleaved fiber end facet at the opposite end of the fiber to provide the necessary feedback for lasing, we obtained a maximum output power of 159W at 1565nm in a beam with beam quality factor (M2) similar to 1.9 for 466W of launched pump power. The corresponding slope efficiency with respect to launched pump power was 34%. The maximum output power was limited by the available pump power. A strategy for increasing the output power and improving the beam quality based on the use of a double-clad fiber design with a helical-core trajectory is considered.

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Published date: 30 August 2005
Venue - Dates: SPIE Conference on Lasers and Applications, Warsaw, Poland, 2005-08-30
Organisations: Optoelectronics Research Centre

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Local EPrints ID: 379736
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/379736
PURE UUID: e82102b0-f3cf-440b-afa4-86cae37f69a9
ORCID for J. Nilsson: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-1691-7959
ORCID for J.K. Sahu: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-3560-6152

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Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:09

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Author: W.A. Clarkson
Author: D. Shen
Author: P. Wang
Author: L.J. Cooper
Author: J. Nilsson ORCID iD
Author: J.K. Sahu ORCID iD

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