High‐power laser systems

J Zuo, X Lin - Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
High‐power laser sources are widely used in industrial precision processing and act as a
new platform for strong‐field physics research using peak power over petawatt. This review …

[HTML][HTML] Materials for optical fiber lasers: A review

PD Dragic, M Cavillon, J Ballato - Applied Physics Reviews, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Over the past two decades, fiber laser technologies have matured to such an extent that they
have captured a large portion of the commercial laser marketplace. Yet, there still is a …

Raman fiber lasers

VR Supradeepa, Y Feng, JW Nicholson - Journal of Optics, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
High-power fiber lasers have seen tremendous development in the last decade, with output
powers exceeding multiple kilowatts from a single fiber. Ytterbium has been at the forefront …

10.8 kW spectral beam combination of eight all-fiber superfluorescent sources and their dispersion compensation

Y Zheng, Y Yang, J Wang, M Hu, G Liu, X Zhao… - Optics …, 2016 - opg.optica.org
We report an 8-element spectral beam combination of Yb-doped all fiber superfluorescent
sources around 1070 nm wavelength. Each source consists of a 60 mW front-end and a 1.5 …

2.2 kW single-mode narrow-linewidth laser delivery through a hollow-core fiber

MA Cooper, J Wahlen, S Yerolatsitis, D Cruz-Delgado… - Optica, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Antiresonant hollow-core fibers (AR-HCFs) have opened up exciting possibilities for high-
energy and high-power laser delivery because of their exceptionally low nonlinearities and …

Comprehensive theoretical study of mode instability in high-power fiber lasers by employing a universal model and its implications

R Tao, X Wang, P Zhou - IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present comprehensive theoretical study of mode instability with a universal model for
the first time, which includes quantitative study on the various influence factors and …

Comparison of phase modulation schemes for coherently combined fiber amplifiers

B Anderson, A Flores, R Holten, I Dajani - Optics express, 2015 - opg.optica.org
Optical linewidth broadening through both white noise (WNS) and pseudo-random binary
sequence (PBRS) phase modulation are effective techniques for suppressing stimulated …

Theory of stimulated Brillouin scattering in fibers for highly multimode excitations

K Wisal, SC Warren-Smith, CW Chen, H Cao, AD Stone - Physical Review X, 2024 - APS
Stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) is often an unwanted loss mechanism in both active
and passive fibers. Highly multimode excitation of fibers has been proposed as a novel route …

Spectral broadening in high-power Yb-doped fiber lasers employing narrow-linewidth multilongitudinal-mode oscillators

Z Huang, X Liang, C Li, H Lin, Q Li, J Wang, F **g - Applied Optics, 2016 - opg.optica.org
High-power continuous wave fiber lasers with narrow linewidths are required for spectral
beam combining systems. A 2.9 kW Yb-doped fiber laser with an output linewidth as narrow …

Optimal input excitations for suppressing nonlinear instabilities in multimode fibers

K Wisal, CW Chen, Z Kuang, OD Miller, H Cao… - Optica, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Wavefront sha** has become a powerful tool for manipulating light propagation in various
complex media undergoing linear scattering. Controlling nonlinear optical interactions with …