In this paper, we demonstrate a high power fiber oscillator based on a pair of 20 μm /400 μm large mode area double cladding fiber Bragg gratings fabricated by a femtosecond laser together with a phase mask. The reflectivity of the high-reflection FBG is more than 99%, and that of the low-reflection FBG is about 10%. The slope efficiency of the fiber oscillator is 77.9%, and the maximum power output is more than 3.2 kW. To the best of our knowledge, the kW level class fiber oscillator using FBGs fabricated by a femtosecond laser has never been reported in our nation before, and our research works fill the vacancy in this field, which is meaningful in fabrication of high power FBGs.
Hongye Li, Baiyi Wu, Meng Wang, Xiaofan Zhao, Xin Tian, Chenhui Gao, Binyu Rao, Xiaoming Xi, Zilun Chen, Zhiyong Pan, Xiaolin Wang, Zefeng Wang. 3.2 kW Single-Mode Fiber Oscillator Based on FBGs Inscribed by Femtosecond Laser[J]. Chinese Journal of Lasers, 2022, 49(3): 0315002