[HTML][HTML] Towards ultimate high-power scaling: Coherent beam combining of fiber lasers

H Fathi, M Närhi, R Gumenyuk - Photonics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Fiber laser technology has been demonstrated as a versatile and reliable approach to laser
source manufacturing with a wide range of applicability in various fields ranging from …

[HTML][HTML] Optically managing thermal energy in high-power yb-doped fiber lasers and amplifiers: a brief review

N Yu, J Ballato, MJF Digonnet… - Current optics and …, 2022 - coppjournal.org
Fiber lasers have made remarkable progress over the past three decades, and they now
serve farreaching applications and have even become indispensable in many technology …

Mitigation of TMI in an 8 kW tandem pumped fiber amplifier enabled by inter-mode gain competition mechanism through bending control

R Li, H Li, H Wu, H Xiao, J Leng, L Huang, Z Pan… - Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
In this work, the impact of fiber bending and mode content on transverse mode instability
(TMI) is investigated. Based on a modified stimulated thermal Rayleigh scattering (STRS) …

10 kW tandem pumping fiber amplifier with good beam quality based on tapered ytterbium-doped fiber

C Wang, H Xiao, X Xi, W Liu, R Li, Z Pan, H Yang… - Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
In this paper, we established a high power tandem pumped fiber amplifier based on tapered
ytterbium-doped fiber (TYDF). The TYDF is developed in-house with a core/inner cladding …

High-power tandem-pumped fiber amplifier with beam quality maintenance enabled by the confined-doped fiber

H Wu, R Li, H Xiao, L Huang, H Yang, Z Pan, J Leng… - Optics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
The high absorption confined-doped ytterbium fiber with 40/250 μm core/inner-cladding
diameter is proposed and fabricated, where the relative doping ratio of 0.75 is selected …

More than 5 kW counter tandem pumped fiber amplifier with near single-mode beam quality

R Li, H Wu, H Xiao, J Leng, P Zhou - Optics & Laser Technology, 2022 - Elsevier
We report on what we believe is the first demonstration of a monolithic counter tandem
pumped ytterbium-doped fiber amplifier based on conventional double-clad fiber. At the …

First demonstration of a bidirectional tandem-pumped high-brightness 8 kW level confined-doped fiber amplifier

H Wu, R Li, H Xiao, L Huang, H Yang… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we demonstrated a high-brightness bidirectional tandem-pumped confined-
doped fiber amplifier with nearly 8 kW output power. The technical difficulties for realizing …

[PDF][PDF] 级联泵浦高功率掺镱光纤激光器: 进展与展望

肖起榕, 田佳丁, 李丹, 齐天澄, 王泽晖… - Chinese Journal of …, 2021 - researching.cn
摘要级联泵浦的高功率掺镱光纤激光器在近年快速发展, 已经成为获取具有优异光谱特性,
高亮度, 高功率激光光束的重要技术途径. 以高功率1018nm 光纤激光器为代表的高亮度级联泵 …

Low-numerical aperture confined-doped long-tapered Yb-doped silica fiber for a single-mode high-power fiber amplifier

Z Zhang, X Lin, X Zhang, Y Luo, S Liao, X Wang… - Optics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
A low-numerical aperture (NA) confined-doped long-tapered (LCT) Yb-doped fiber is
proposed and fabricated by modified chemical vapor deposition combined with solution …

Seeing the strong suppression of higher order modes in single trench fiber using the S2 technique

Y An, H Yang, X Chen, L Huang, Z Yan, Z Pan… - Optics Letters, 2023 - opg.optica.org
The single trench fiber (STF) is a promising fiber design for mode area scaling and higher
order mode (HOM) suppression. In this Letter, we experimentally demonstrate the strong …