2.1 kW single mode continuous wave monolithic fiber laser

Andrea Rosales-Garcia; Hideaki Tobioka; Kazi Abedin; Hao Dong; Zoltán Várallyay; Aron Szabo; Thierry Taunay; Sean P. Sullivan; Clifford Headley

doi:10.1117/12.2077619

4 March 2015 2.1 kW single mode continuous wave monolithic fiber laser

Andrea Rosales-Garcia, Hideaki Tobioka, Kazi Abedin, Hao Dong, Zoltán Várallyay, Aron Szabo, Thierry Taunay, Sean P. Sullivan, Clifford Headley

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Proceedings Volume 9344, Fiber Lasers XII: Technology, Systems, and Applications; 93441G (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2077619
Event: SPIE LASE, 2015, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

A robust, alignment-free monolithic 2.1 kW single-mode continuous wave fiber laser, operating at 1083 nm is demonstrated. The laser is pumped with commercial fiber pigtailed multimode diodes through all-fiber pump-signal power combiners in a MOPA architecture. The oscillator was formed with high reflector and output coupler fiber Bragg gratings written in 11/200 μm (mode field/cladding diameter) single-mode fiber. The gain medium was a 19m OFS commercial 11/200 μm double clad Yb-doped fiber (DCY). Pump light was coupled to the oscillator using two 11/200 μm pump-signal power combiners (PSC). A total of 20 commercially available 58W pump diodes at 915 nm were used to generate 800W of signal, as measured before the amplifier. The Raman power after the oscillator was more than 60 dB below the signal power. The amplifier was built using 13 m of 14/200 µm DCY and two (18+1)x1 PSC combiners with more than 95% pump and signal light transmission. A total of 2 kW of power was used to bi-directionally pump the amplifier. The output was measured after 3 m 14/200 μm fiber, and 10 m 100/360 μm delivery cable. Total signal output power was 2.1 kW, corresponding to an amplifier slope efficiency of 77%. The Raman power is more than 30 dB below the signal power. At maximum power, no modal instabilities, thermal effects, nor power rollover were observed. With higher power pumps, it is predicted that a power level of 2.6 kW can be achieved with the Raman level below 20 dB.

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Andrea Rosales-Garcia, Hideaki Tobioka, Kazi Abedin, Hao Dong, Zoltán Várallyay, Aron Szabo, Thierry Taunay, Sean P. Sullivan, and Clifford Headley "2.1 kW single mode continuous wave monolithic fiber laser", Proc. SPIE 9344, Fiber Lasers XII: Technology, Systems, and Applications, 93441G (4 March 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2077619

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