High power fiber lasers: current status and future perspectives

DJ Richardson, J Nilsson, WA Clarkson - JOSA B, 2010 - opg.optica.org
The rise in output power from rare-earth-doped fiber sources over the past decade, via the
use of cladding-pumped fiber architectures, has been dramatic, leading to a range of fiber …

Functional fibers and functional fiber-based components for high-power lasers

X Chen, T Yao, L Huang, Y An, H Wu, Z Pan… - Advanced Fiber …, 2023 - Springer
The success of high-power fiber lasers is fueled by maturation of active and passive fibers,
combined with the availability of high-power fiber-based components. In this contribution, we …

Single-mode chirally-coupled-core fibers with larger than 50µm diameter cores

X Ma, C Zhu, IN Hu, A Kaplan, A Galvanauskas - Optics express, 2014 - opg.optica.org
In this paper, we report an advance in increasing core size of effective single-mode chirally-
coupled-core (CCC) Ge-doped and Yb-doped double-clad fibers into 55µm to 60µm range …

Selective transverse mode operation of an all-fiber laser with a mode-selective fiber Bragg grating pair

T Liu, SP Chen, J Hou - Optics letters, 2016 - opg.optica.org
We propose a novel approach for achieving selective transverse mode operation of few-
mode all-fiber lasers. Lasing in a specific transverse mode is enabled by employing a pair of …

Near-single-mode 3 kW monolithic fiber oscillator based on a longitudinally spindle-shaped Yb-doped fiber

L Zeng, X ** fiber
Z Huang, Q Shu, Y Luo, R Tao, X Feng, Y Liu, H Lin… - JOSA B, 2021 - opg.optica.org
A high-power monolithic continuous-wave fiber amplifier at 1064 nm has been
demonstrated based on a piece of confined ytterbium-doped fiber, which generated 3.5 kW …

Gain-tailored Yb/Ce codoped aluminosilicate fiber for laser stability improvement at high output power

F Zhang, Y Wang, X Lin, Y Cheng, Z Zhang, Y Liu… - Optics express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
A gain-tailored Ge-free Yb/Ce codoped aluminosilicate fiber is fabricated by MCVD
combined with solution do** technique. Through regulating the temperature in the tube …

1 kW cw Yb-fiber-amplifier with< 0.5 GHz linewidth and near-diffraction limited beam-quality for coherent combining application

D Engin, W Lu, M Akbulut, B McIntosh… - Fiber Lasers VIII …, 2011 - spiedigitallibrary.org
In this paper, we present results on a master-oscillator Yb-doped fiber amplifier with 1 kW cw
output power (at 1064nm), and near-diffraction limited beam quality (M2< 1.4), with internal …

Femtosecond-pulse inscribed FBGs for mode selection in multimode fiber lasers

AV Dostovalov, AA Wolf, MI Skvortsov… - Optical fiber …, 2019 - Elsevier
Reflection properties of a fiber Bragg grating (FBG) inscribed in a multimode fiber strongly
depend on the transverse profile of FBG. Point-by-point FBG fabrication by IR femtosecond …