We report here the first hundred-watt continuous wave fiber gas laser in H_(2)-filled hollow-core photonic crystal fiber(PCF)by stimulated Raman scattering.The pump source is a homemade narrow-linewidth fiber oscillat...We report here the first hundred-watt continuous wave fiber gas laser in H_(2)-filled hollow-core photonic crystal fiber(PCF)by stimulated Raman scattering.The pump source is a homemade narrow-linewidth fiber oscillator with a 3 dB linewidth of 0.15 nm at the maximum output power of 380 W.To efficiently and stably couple several-hundred-watt pump power into the hollow core and seal the gas,a hollow-core fiber end-cap is fabricated and used at the input end.A maximum power of 110 W at 1153 nm is obtained in a 5 m long hollow-core PCF filled with 36 bar H2,and the conversion efficiency of the first Stokes power is around 48.9%.This work paves the way for high-power fiber gas Raman lasers.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)(Nos.11974427 and 12004431)the Science and Technology Innovation Program of Hunan Province(No.2021RC4027)the Postgraduate Scientific Research Innovation Project of Hunan Province(No.CX20200017)
文摘We report here the first hundred-watt continuous wave fiber gas laser in H_(2)-filled hollow-core photonic crystal fiber(PCF)by stimulated Raman scattering.The pump source is a homemade narrow-linewidth fiber oscillator with a 3 dB linewidth of 0.15 nm at the maximum output power of 380 W.To efficiently and stably couple several-hundred-watt pump power into the hollow core and seal the gas,a hollow-core fiber end-cap is fabricated and used at the input end.A maximum power of 110 W at 1153 nm is obtained in a 5 m long hollow-core PCF filled with 36 bar H2,and the conversion efficiency of the first Stokes power is around 48.9%.This work paves the way for high-power fiber gas Raman lasers.
