3C Yb-doped fiber based high energy and power pulsed fiber lasers

Thomas Sosnowski; Andrey Kuznetsov; Robert Maynard; Xiuquan Ma; Cheng Zhu; I-Ning Hu; Almantas Galvanauskas; Joona J. Koponen; Timothy S. McComb

doi:10.1117/12.2008306

22 March 2013 3C Yb-doped fiber based high energy and power pulsed fiber lasers

Thomas Sosnowski, Andrey Kuznetsov, Robert Maynard, Xiuquan Ma, Cheng Zhu, I-Ning Hu, Almantas Galvanauskas, Joona J. Koponen, Timothy S. McComb

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Proceedings Volume 8601, Fiber Lasers X: Technology, Systems, and Applications; 86011M (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2008306
Event: SPIE LASE, 2013, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

3C fiber technology advances the performance frontier of practical, high-pulse-energy fiber lasers by providing very large core fibers with the handling and packaging benefits associated with single mode fibers. First-generation fibers demonstrate scaling to > 240 W average power coincident with 100-kW peak power in 1-mJ, 10-ns pulses while maintaining single-mode beam quality, polarized output, and efficiencies > 70%. Peak powers over 0.5 MW with negligible spectral distortion can be achieved with sub ns, near-transform-limited pulses. In-development second-generation 3C Yb-fiber based on core sizes around 55 μm¹ have produced >8 mJ, 13 ns pulses with peak powers exceeding 600 kW.

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Thomas Sosnowski, Andrey Kuznetsov, Robert Maynard, Xiuquan Ma, Cheng Zhu, I-Ning Hu, Almantas Galvanauskas, Joona J. Koponen, and Timothy S. McComb "3C Yb-doped fiber based high energy and power pulsed fiber lasers", Proc. SPIE 8601, Fiber Lasers X: Technology, Systems, and Applications, 86011M (22 March 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2008306

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