Author Affiliations
1 College of Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, Hunan 410073, China2 Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of High Energy Laser Technology, Changsha, Hunan 410073, China3 Hunan Provincial Collaborative Innovation Center of High Power Fiber Laser, Changsha, Hunan 410073, Chinashow less
Fig. 1. Experimental setup of 1.36 kW space-coupled fiber laser oscillator
Fig. 2. Experimental setup of 2.1 kW space-coupled fiber laser oscillator
Fig. 3. Schematic of 3 kW space-coupled fiber laser oscillator
Fig. 4. Experimental setup of 1.6 kW single-mode all-fiber laser oscillator
Fig. 5. Schematic of the 20/400 μm double side pumped all-fiber laser oscillator
Fig. 6. Output spectra. (a) 2.5 kW all-fiber laser oscillator; (b) 3 kW all-fiber laser oscillator
Fig. 7. Schematic of the 25/400 μm double side pumped all-fiber laser oscillator
Fig. 8. 5.2 kW all-fiber laser oscillator. (a) Output spectra; (b) time domain and frequency domain profiles at the maximum output power
Fig. 9. Schematic of 5 kW all-fiber laser oscillator
Fig. 10. Output performance of 5 kW all-fiber laser oscillator. (a) Output power versus launched pump power; (b) output spectra
Fig. 11. Structure of side-coupled cladding pump fiber
Fig. 12. Experimental setup and results of the cascaded side-pumped fiber laser oscillator. (a) Diagram of experimental setup; (b) output power versus pump power; (c) output spectrum
Fig. 13. (a) Structure of 3C fiber with 8 side cores; (b) cross section of a LPF
Fig. 14. Schematic of 2.6 kW narrowband laser amplifier with 3C fiber
Year | Institution | Power /kW | Pumping scheme | Fibera | Reference |
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2010 | CoreLase,Finland | 1 | 975 nm bi-pump | 20 μm, 0.065 NA | [9] | 2012 | Alfalight,USA | 1 | 915 nm co-pump | 20 μm, 0.065 NA | [26] | 2014 | NUDT,China | 1.5 | 915 nm co-pump | 20 μm, 0.065 NA | [27] | 2015 | TJU,China | 1.6 | 976 nm co-pump | 20 μm, 0.065 NA | [29] | 2015 | CoreLase,Finland | 2 | 915 nm bi-pump | 20 μm, 0.065 NA | [9] | 2016 | Fujikura,Japan | 2 | 915 nm bi-pump | Aeff 400 μm2, 0.07 NA | [30] | 2016 | NUDT,China | 2.5 | 976 nm bi-pump | 20 μm, 0.065 NA | [31] | 2016 | NUDT,China | 3 | 976 nm bi-pump | 20 μm, 0.065 NA | [32] | 2017 | TJU,China | 2 | 915 nm co-pump | 20 μm, 0.065 NA | [33] | 2017 | SUSTech,China | 2 | 976 nm bi-pump | 20 μm, 0.065 NA | [34] | 2017 | Fujikura,Japan | 3 | 915 nm bi-pump | Aeff 400 μm2, 0.07 NA | [35] | 2017 | NUDT,China | 4 | 915 nm bi-pump | 25 μm, 0.065 NA | [36] | 2018 | Fujikura,Japan | 5 | 976 nm bi-pump | Aeff 600 μm2 | [28] | 2018 | NUDT,China | 5.2 | 915 nm bi-pump | 25 μm, 0.065 NA | [37] | aAeff represents the effective mode area of fiber. |
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Table 1. Typical experimental results of high power all-fiber laser oscillators