Dr. David P. Machewirth Profile

Dr. David P. Machewirth

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Proceedings Article | 22 February 2008 Paper

50W single-mode linearly polarized high peak power pulsed fiber laser with tunable ns-μs pulse durations and kHz-MHz repetition rates

V. Khitrov, B. Samson, D. Machewirth, K. Tankala

Proceedings Volume 6873, 68730C (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.763198

KEYWORDS: Pulsed laser operation, Amplifiers, Laser applications, Pulsed fiber lasers, Phase modulation, Fiber lasers, Diodes, Molybdenum, Distortion, Tunable lasers

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Proceedings Article | 22 February 2007 Paper

Current developments in high-power, monolithic, polarization maintaining fiber amplifiers for coherent beam combining applications

D. Machewirth, Q. Wang, B. Samson, K. Tankala, M. O'Connor, M. Alam

Proceedings Volume 6453, 64531F (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.712691

KEYWORDS: Optical amplifiers, Fiber amplifiers, Phase modulation, High power fiber amplifiers, Diodes, Optical isolators, Amplifiers, Polarization maintaining fibers, Geometrical optics, Active optics

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Proceedings Article | 20 February 2007 Paper

High-peak power-pulsed single-mode linearly-polarized LMA fiber amplifier and Q-switch laser

V. Khitrov, B. Samson, D. Machewirth, D. Yan, K. Tankala, A. Held

Proceedings Volume 6453, 645305 (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.712341

KEYWORDS: Fiber amplifiers, Fiber lasers, Q switching, Q switched fiber lasers, Oscillators, Phase modulation, Amplifiers, Pulsed laser operation, Optical amplifiers, Laser applications

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Proceedings Article | 23 February 2006 Paper

1 kW, 15μJ linearly polarized fiber laser operating at 977 nm

V. Khitrov, D. Machewirth, B. Samson, K. Tankala

Proceedings Volume 6102, 610222 (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.646715

KEYWORDS: Fiber lasers, Ytterbium, Phase modulation, Semiconductor lasers, Pulsed laser operation, Pulsed fiber lasers, Diodes, Wavelength division multiplexing, Laser applications, Polarization

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Proceedings Article | 23 February 2006 Paper

New developments in high power eye-safe LMA fibers

K. Tankala, B. Samson, A. Carter, J. Farroni, D. Machewirth, N. Jacobson, U. Manyam, A. Sanchez, M-Y. Chen, A. Galvanauskas, W. Torruellas, Y. Chen

Proceedings Volume 6102, 610206 (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.646663

KEYWORDS: Thulium, Optical fibers, Absorption, Ytterbium, Erbium, Cladding, Ions, Silica, Quantum efficiency, Glasses

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Proceedings Article | 22 April 2005 Paper

Linearly polarized high-power fiber lasers with monolithic PM-LMA-fiber and LMA-grating based cavities and their use for nonlinear wavelength conversion

V. Khitrov, B. Samson, U. Manyam, K. Tankala, D. Machewirth, S. Heinemann, C. Liu, A. Galvanauskas

Proceedings Volume 5709, (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.590825

KEYWORDS: Fiber lasers, Polarization, Fiber Bragg gratings, High power fiber lasers, Continuous wave operation, Diffraction, Laser resonators, Chemical oxygen iodine lasers, Diodes, Laser applications

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Proceedings Article | 21 February 2005 Paper

Damage mechanisms in components for fiber lasers and amplifiers

Adrian Carter, Bryce Samson, Kanishka Tankala, David Machewirth, Victor Khitrov, Upendra Manyam, Francois Gonthier, Francois Seguin

Proceedings Volume 5647, (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.592015

KEYWORDS: Fiber lasers, Cladding, Coating, Glasses, Reliability, Polymers, Fiber Bragg gratings, Interfaces, Continuous wave operation, Fiber coupled lasers

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Proceedings Article | 8 October 2004 Paper

Continued advancements in the design of double clad fibers for use in high output fiber lasers and amplifiers

Adrian Carter, Kanishka Tankala, Bryce Samson, David Machewirth, Victor Khitrov, Upendra Manyam

Proceedings Volume 5662, (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.596360

KEYWORDS: Optical fibers, Fiber lasers, Birefringence, Fiber amplifiers, Polarization, Cladding, Phase modulation, Ytterbium, Single mode fibers, Nonlinear dynamics

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Fiber lasers have a number of distinct advantages over their more conventional solid state laser alternatives. These advantages include size, reliability, wavelength selectivity, heat dissipation, wall plug efficiency and operational cost. Furthermore they can be operated without the need for active cooling or optical alignment. Consequently the market for these more traditional laser sources are beginning to be eroded by the emergence of fiber lasers. In 1999 high power fiber lasers became a reality, with the world's first single-mode fiber laser exhibiting in excess of 100W cw output. However it was soon recognized that conventional small core, high NA fiber designs were not appropriate to applications requiring further scaling of the output power. More specifically it was found that the maximum achievable output power in such fibers were restricted by a fundamental susceptibility to optical nonlinearities, including stimulated Raman scattering (SRS), stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) and self-phase modulation. In order to overcome the limitations imposed by these parasitic nonlinear processes, it has been necessary to develop fibers with high rare-earth dopant concentrations in relatively large core, low numerical aperture fibers. These so-called large mode area (LMA) fibers are directly responsible for the recent explosion in demonstrated diffraction-limited beam quality output powers, now approaching the kW-level from a single fiber. To further scale the output power it is necessary to combine the output of several fiber lasers. Indeed, for a number of industrial and military applications it is desirable to scale the total output power to between several and hundreds of kW's. It is therefore advantageous to be able to coherently combine the beams from multiple fibers and this it turns makes it desirable for the fiber to also be polarization maintaining. This provides yet another layer of complexity to the fiber design but such fibers are now a commercial reality. In this paper we review the recent and ongoing advantages in fiber design that is facilitating the development and production of lasers and amplifiers with ever increasing output powers.

Proceedings Article | 14 June 2004 Paper

The road to kilowatt fiber lasers

Adrian Carter, Bryce Samson, Kanishka Tankala, David Machewirth, Upendra Manyam, Jaroslaw Abramczyk, Julia Farroni, Douglas Guertin, Nils Jacobson

Proceedings Volume 5350, (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.533134

KEYWORDS: Fiber lasers, Birefringence, Cladding, Phase modulation, Glasses, Manufacturing, Diodes, Ytterbium, Fiber coupled lasers, Roads

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Proceedings Article | 7 June 2004 Paper

Large-mode-area double-clad fibers for pulsed and CW lasers and amplifiers

David Machewirth, Victor Khitrov, Upendra Manyam, Kanishka Tankala, Adrian Carter, Jaroslaw Abramczyk, Julia Farroni, Douglas Guertin, Nils Jacobson

Proceedings Volume 5335, (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.528056

KEYWORDS: Optical fibers, Ytterbium, Cladding, Phase modulation, Amplifiers, Absorption, Fiber lasers, Reliability, Optical testing, Chemical oxygen iodine lasers

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Proceedings Article | 3 July 2003 Paper

PM double-clad fibers for high-power lasers and amplifiers

Kanishka Tankala, Adrian Carter, David Machewirth, Julia Farroni, Jaroslaw Abramczyk, Upendra Manyam

Proceedings Volume 4974, (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.501679

KEYWORDS: Optical fibers, Birefringence, Phase modulation, Amplifiers, High power lasers, Cladding, Polarization, Luminescence, Ytterbium, Fiber lasers

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Conference Committee Involvement (1)

Passive Components and Fiber-Based Devices

2 November 2007 | Wuhan, China

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