Thermally-guided Yb-doped fiber-rod amplifier and laser
Thermally-guided Yb-doped fiber-rod amplifier and laser
In this paper we describe a thermally-guided fiber-rod amplifier and laser oscillator, which exploit thermal guiding to achieve mode control. This power scalable approach operates with mode sizes that are typically an order of magnitude larger than traditional single-mode fibers. Operating as an amplifier we achieve a small-signal gain of 5dB at 1030nm, whilst maintaining excellent beam quality (M2 < 1.1). In a laser configuration we obtained 13.1W of diffraction-limited (M2 < 1.1) output power at 1032.5nm, with a slope efficiency 53% with respect to absorbed power. A model predicting beam evolution through the thermally-guided fiber-rod gain medium is presented and validated.
Laser, fibre
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Smith, Callum R.
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Simakov, Nikita
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Hemming, Alexander
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Clarkson, W.A.
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February 2019
Smith, Callum R.
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Simakov, Nikita
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Hemming, Alexander
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Clarkson, W.A.
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Smith, Callum R., Simakov, Nikita, Hemming, Alexander and Clarkson, W.A.
(2019)
Thermally-guided Yb-doped fiber-rod amplifier and laser.
Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics, 125 (32), .
(doi:10.1007/s00340-018-7126-3).
Abstract
In this paper we describe a thermally-guided fiber-rod amplifier and laser oscillator, which exploit thermal guiding to achieve mode control. This power scalable approach operates with mode sizes that are typically an order of magnitude larger than traditional single-mode fibers. Operating as an amplifier we achieve a small-signal gain of 5dB at 1030nm, whilst maintaining excellent beam quality (M2 < 1.1). In a laser configuration we obtained 13.1W of diffraction-limited (M2 < 1.1) output power at 1032.5nm, with a slope efficiency 53% with respect to absorbed power. A model predicting beam evolution through the thermally-guided fiber-rod gain medium is presented and validated.
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Smith 2019 Article Thermally Guided Yb-doped Fiber
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Accepted/In Press date: 16 December 2018
e-pub ahead of print date: 4 February 2019
Published date: February 2019
Keywords:
Laser, fibre
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Local EPrints ID: 428032
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/428032
ISSN: 0946-2171
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Callum R. Smith
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Nikita Simakov
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Alexander Hemming
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