A home-made double-clad Tm3＋ -doped silica fiber laser with over 150-W output power is reported. Pumped with a diode bar at 793nm, the fiber laser is operated at 2.04μm with a slope efficiency of 56.3%. A quantum ef...A home-made double-clad Tm3＋ -doped silica fiber laser with over 150-W output power is reported. Pumped with a diode bar at 793nm, the fiber laser is operated at 2.04μm with a slope efficiency of 56.3%. A quantum efficiency of 〉 140% is achieved owing to the efficient cross-relaxation process in heavily Tm3＋-doped fibers. By using different fiber-cooling techniques, the slope efficiency shows a deviation over 10%. The influence of output coupling on the laser characteristics is also investigated.展开更多
Phase locking for two ytterbium-doped large-core fiber lasers has been demonstrated by using a selfimaging confocal resonator with a spatial filter. Steady high-contrast interference stripes are observed. The visibili...Phase locking for two ytterbium-doped large-core fiber lasers has been demonstrated by using a selfimaging confocal resonator with a spatial filter. Steady high-contrast interference stripes are observed. The visibilities of coherent and incoherent stripes are 59% and 6%, respectively. The measured width of the central strip is in good agreement with the calculated result. For in-phase mode, the output power of the phase-locked fiber laser array is up to 113 W and corresponding slope efficiency is 38.5%.展开更多
Coiling technique is used to control the transverse mode of a large-mode-area （LMA） multimode fiber laser. By winding the fiber to a coil with different radius, high-order modes of a multimode fiber laser are suppre...Coiling technique is used to control the transverse mode of a large-mode-area （LMA） multimode fiber laser. By winding the fiber to a coil with different radius, high-order modes of a multimode fiber laser are suppressed one by one and finally 15.4-W single-transverse-mode output is achieved when the coil radius is 20 mm. It is found that as the coil radius decreases, the beam quality of a multimode fiber laser gets better but the slope efficiency drops for higher-order modes are discriminated. During the experiment, as the coil radius of multimode fiber changes, output characteristic of the laser has been measured. Meanwhile, the mode loss of different modes is calculated theoretically. It is proved that the experimental measured results fit well with the theoretically calculated results.展开更多
A narrow-linewidth master-oscillator fiber power amplifier system was presented, in which an ultrastable, continuous-wave, single-frequency laser was adopted as the master oscillator and a China-made Yb-doped large-mo...A narrow-linewidth master-oscillator fiber power amplifier system was presented, in which an ultrastable, continuous-wave, single-frequency laser was adopted as the master oscillator and a China-made Yb-doped large-mode-area fiber was used as the power amplifier medium. The system generates single-frequency radiation up to 7.3 W at 1064-nm wavelength with 3970 slope efficiency and 26% optical-optical power conversion efficiency. The spectral characteristics as well as the suppression of amplified spontaneous emission were discussed in detail.展开更多
A high-power ytterbium-doped fiber laser (YDFL) with homemade double-clad fiber (DCF) is introduced in this letter. The geometric parameter and laser characteristics of the fiber have been studied. With oneend-pumping...A high-power ytterbium-doped fiber laser (YDFL) with homemade double-clad fiber (DCF) is introduced in this letter. The geometric parameter and laser characteristics of the fiber have been studied. With oneend-pumping scheme, pumped by a high-power laser diode with launching power of 280 W, a maximum continuous wave (CW) output of 110 W is obtained with an optical-to-optical efficiency of 40%.展开更多
Coiling technique is used to suppress high-order modes of a large mode area （LMA） double clapt multimode fiber. Output powers and beam quality factors M^2 are measured under two different coiling radii. 217 W with M...Coiling technique is used to suppress high-order modes of a large mode area （LMA） double clapt multimode fiber. Output powers and beam quality factors M^2 are measured under two different coiling radii. 217 W with M^2 of 2.96 can be obtained for coiling radius of 165 mm and 160 W with M^2 of 1.38 for 52 mm. The corresponding slope efficiencies are 60% and 48%. With smaller coiling radius, the brightness is 3.4 times as high as that of the larger one.展开更多
A pulsed master-oscillator fiber power amplifier system with near diffraction-limited output by use of China-made large-mode-area fiber and a （2 ＋ 1） × 1 multimode combiner is reported. The effect of the seed ...A pulsed master-oscillator fiber power amplifier system with near diffraction-limited output by use of China-made large-mode-area fiber and a （2 ＋ 1） × 1 multimode combiner is reported. The effect of the seed power on the amplification performance is found. For the seed power, there exists a range within which the pulsed fiber amplifier can operate safely and reliably at a certain pump power. With the seed average power of 70 mW, the amplification performances of the fiber amplifier are investigated.展开更多
基金Supported by the National High-Tech Research and Development Program of China under Grant No2009AA03Z441 and the Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai under Contract 10ZR1433700.
文摘A home-made double-clad Tm3＋ -doped silica fiber laser with over 150-W output power is reported. Pumped with a diode bar at 793nm, the fiber laser is operated at 2.04μm with a slope efficiency of 56.3%. A quantum efficiency of 〉 140% is achieved owing to the efficient cross-relaxation process in heavily Tm3＋-doped fibers. By using different fiber-cooling techniques, the slope efficiency shows a deviation over 10%. The influence of output coupling on the laser characteristics is also investigated.
基金This work was supported by the National Major Fundamental Research Program(973)of China(No.61359020103)the National High Technology Research and Development Program(863)of China(No.2005AA802030).
文摘Phase locking for two ytterbium-doped large-core fiber lasers has been demonstrated by using a selfimaging confocal resonator with a spatial filter. Steady high-contrast interference stripes are observed. The visibilities of coherent and incoherent stripes are 59% and 6%, respectively. The measured width of the central strip is in good agreement with the calculated result. For in-phase mode, the output power of the phase-locked fiber laser array is up to 113 W and corresponding slope efficiency is 38.5%.
基金National Key Basic Research Project of China,the Shanghai Science & Technology Foundation(No.04DZ05120,05DZ22001)the Knowledge Innovation Project of Chinese Academy of Sciences.
文摘Coiling technique is used to control the transverse mode of a large-mode-area （LMA） multimode fiber laser. By winding the fiber to a coil with different radius, high-order modes of a multimode fiber laser are suppressed one by one and finally 15.4-W single-transverse-mode output is achieved when the coil radius is 20 mm. It is found that as the coil radius decreases, the beam quality of a multimode fiber laser gets better but the slope efficiency drops for higher-order modes are discriminated. During the experiment, as the coil radius of multimode fiber changes, output characteristic of the laser has been measured. Meanwhile, the mode loss of different modes is calculated theoretically. It is proved that the experimental measured results fit well with the theoretically calculated results.
基金This work was supported by the 863 Key Program Foundation of China and the Shanghai Commission of Science and Technology(No.05DZ22001).
文摘A narrow-linewidth master-oscillator fiber power amplifier system was presented, in which an ultrastable, continuous-wave, single-frequency laser was adopted as the master oscillator and a China-made Yb-doped large-mode-area fiber was used as the power amplifier medium. The system generates single-frequency radiation up to 7.3 W at 1064-nm wavelength with 3970 slope efficiency and 26% optical-optical power conversion efficiency. The spectral characteristics as well as the suppression of amplified spontaneous emission were discussed in detail.
基金This work was supported by the National Natural Sci-ence Foundation of China (No. 60244005)Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Shanghai Science & Technology Foundation (No. 036105034).
文摘A high-power ytterbium-doped fiber laser (YDFL) with homemade double-clad fiber (DCF) is introduced in this letter. The geometric parameter and laser characteristics of the fiber have been studied. With oneend-pumping scheme, pumped by a high-power laser diode with launching power of 280 W, a maximum continuous wave (CW) output of 110 W is obtained with an optical-to-optical efficiency of 40%.
基金This work was supported by the National Key Basic Research Project,Shanghai Science & Technology Foundation (No.04D205120,05D22001)Knowledge Innovation Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
文摘Coiling technique is used to suppress high-order modes of a large mode area （LMA） double clapt multimode fiber. Output powers and beam quality factors M^2 are measured under two different coiling radii. 217 W with M^2 of 2.96 can be obtained for coiling radius of 165 mm and 160 W with M^2 of 1.38 for 52 mm. The corresponding slope efficiencies are 60% and 48%. With smaller coiling radius, the brightness is 3.4 times as high as that of the larger one.
文摘A pulsed master-oscillator fiber power amplifier system with near diffraction-limited output by use of China-made large-mode-area fiber and a （2 ＋ 1） × 1 multimode combiner is reported. The effect of the seed power on the amplification performance is found. For the seed power, there exists a range within which the pulsed fiber amplifier can operate safely and reliably at a certain pump power. With the seed average power of 70 mW, the amplification performances of the fiber amplifier are investigated.
