Large mode area fibers for high power laser operation based on solid- and air-microstructured cores

A. Tuennermann; S. Hoefer; A. Liem; J. Limpert; M. Reich; F. Roeser; T. Schreiber; H. Zellmer

doi:10.1117/12.594514

22 April 2005 Large mode area fibers for high power laser operation based on solid- and air-microstructured cores (Invited Paper)

A. Tuennermann, S. Hoefer, A. Liem, J. Limpert, M. Reich, F. Roeser, T. Schreiber, H. Zellmer

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Proceedings Volume 5709, Fiber Lasers II: Technology, Systems, and Applications; (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.594514
Event: Lasers and Applications in Science and Engineering, 2005, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

In the last years a dramatic increase of the output power of rare-earth-doped fiber lasers and amplifiers with diffraction limited beam quality has been observed. These demonstrates impressively that fiber lasers and amplifiers are an attractive and power scalable solid-state laser concept. The main limiting factors for the laser output power are the damage of the fiber ends, heating of the fiber due to the quantum defect and nonlinear effects. To overcome these problems, an increasing of the core diameter and keeping the fiber single mode, by using solid core step-index large-mode-area fibers, allow the power scaling beyond 1 kW at diffraction limited beam quality. A further scaling is possible by using novel highly doped air-clad photonic crystal fibers with increased mode field diameters of the active core. This type of fibers has several new preferable features. In our contribution we will discuss the advantages of microstructured fibers to reduce nonlinear effects inside the fiber and the possibility to scale the output power of fiber lasers and amplifiers with excellent beam quality. We also show experiments with pulsed fiber amplifier systems using these microstructured large mode area fibers.

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A. Tuennermann, S. Hoefer, A. Liem, J. Limpert, M. Reich, F. Roeser, T. Schreiber, and H. Zellmer "Large mode area fibers for high power laser operation based on solid- and air-microstructured cores (Invited Paper)", Proc. SPIE 5709, Fiber Lasers II: Technology, Systems, and Applications, (22 April 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.594514

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