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3 July 2003 High-power fiber lasers: new developments
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We assess different power limits of cladding-pumped fiber lasers. Despite recent advances in pump sources, these are still primarily limited by available pump power. We find that it should be possible to reach output powers beyond 1 kW in single-mode ytterbium doped fiber lasers. Experimentally, we have realized an ytterbium-doped fiber laser with 272 W of output power at 1080 nm, with an M2-value of 3.2, as well as an erbium-ytterbium co-doped fiber laser with 103 W of output power at 1565 nm, with an M2-value of 2.0. We believe these are the highest-power ytterbium and erbium-ytterbium fiber lasers ever reported.
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Johan Nilsson, Jayanta K. Sahu, Yoochan Jeong, W. A. Clarkson, R. Selvas, Anatoly B. Grudinin, and Shaiful Alam "High-power fiber lasers: new developments", Proc. SPIE 4974, Advances in Fiber Lasers, (3 July 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.478310
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KEYWORDS
Fiber lasers

Cladding

Ytterbium

Glasses

Diodes

Absorption

Laser damage threshold

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