The rising power of fiber lasers and amplifiers

J Limpert, F Roser, S Klingebiel… - IEEE Journal of …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The first rare-earth-doped fiber lasers were operated in the early 1960s, and produced a few
milliwatts at a wavelength around 1 mum. Since the beginning of the decade, an enormous …

High-power ultrafast fiber laser systems

J Limpert, F Roser, T Schreiber… - IEEE Journal of …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The recent demonstration of rare-earth-doped fiber lasers with a continuous wave output
power well above the kilowatt level with diffraction-limited beam quality has proven that fiber …

Ytterbium-doped large-core fiber laser with 1.36 kW continuous-wave output power

Y Jeong, JK Sahu, DN Payne, J Nilsson - Optics express, 2004 - opg.optica.org
We have demonstrated a highly-efficient cladding-pumped ytterbium-doped fiber laser
generating 1.36 kW of continuous-wave output power at 1.1 μm with 83% slope efficiency …

Extended single-mode photonic crystal fiber lasers

J Limpert, O Schmidt, J Rothhardt, F Röser… - Optics express, 2006 - opg.optica.org
We report on an ytterbium-doped photonic crystal fiber with a core diameter of 60 µm and
mode-field-area of~ 2000 µm^ 2 of the emitted fundamental mode. Together with the short …

Low-nonlinearity single-transverse-mode ytterbium-doped photonic crystal fiber amplifier

J Limpert, A Liem, M Reich, T Schreiber, S Nolte… - Optics …, 2004 - opg.optica.org
We report on an air-clad large-core single-transverse-mode ytterbium-doped photonic
crystal fiber with a mode-field-diameter of 35 µm, corresponding to a mode-field-area of …

Ytterbium-doped large-core fiber laser with 1 kW continuous-wave output power

Y Jeong, JK Sahu, DN Payne… - Advanced Solid-State …, 2004 - opg.optica.org
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Ytterbium-doped large-core fiber laser with 1 kW continuous-wave output power Y. Jeong, JK …

The renaissance and bright future of fibre lasers

A Tünnermann, T Schreiber, F Röser… - Journal of Physics B …, 2005 - iopscience.iop.org
The first rare-earth-doped fibre lasers were operated in the early 1960s and produced a few
milliwatts at a wavelength around 1 µm. For the next several decades, fibre lasers were little …

Beam quality factor of higher order modes in a step-index fiber

H Yoda, P Polynkin… - Journal of lightwave …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The beam quality factor (or M 2-parameter) for linearly polarized (LP)-modes of a step-index
fiber is calculated in a closed form, as a function of the fiber V-number. It is shown that M 2 …

High-power wavelength-tunable cladding-pumped rare-earth-doped silica fiber lasers

J Nilsson, WA Clarkson, R Selvas, JK Sahu… - Optical Fiber …, 2004 - Elsevier
We describe the design and performance of cladding-pumped silica fiber lasers with high
continuous-wave output powers and broad wavelength tunability in the 1, 1.5, and 2 μm …

Characteristics of Q-switched cladding-pumped ytterbium-doped fiber lasers with different high-energy fiber designs

CC Ranaud, HL Offerhaus… - IEEE Journal of …, 2001 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We theoretically and experimentally analyze Q-switched cladding pumped ytterbium-doped
fiber lasers designed for high pulse energies. We compare the extractable energy from two …