Integrated 100-W polarized narrow linewidth thulium fiber MOPA system

Lawrence Shah; R. Andrew Sims; Pankaj Kadwani; Christina C. C. Willis; Joshua B. Bradford; Zachary Roth; Aaron Pung; Menelaos Poutous; Eric G. Johnson; Martin Richardson

doi:10.1117/12.909292

15 February 2012 Integrated 100-W polarized narrow linewidth thulium fiber MOPA system

Lawrence Shah, R. Andrew Sims, Pankaj Kadwani, Christina C. C. Willis, Joshua B. Bradford, Zachary Roth, Aaron Pung, Menelaos Poutous, Eric G. Johnson, Martin Richardson

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Proceedings Volume 8237, Fiber Lasers IX: Technology, Systems, and Applications; 82371M (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.909292
Event: SPIE LASE, 2012, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

We report on a Tm:fiber master oscillator power amplifier system producing 100 W output power, with >10 dB polarization extinction ratio and diffraction-limited beam quality. To our knowledge, this is the highest polarized output power from an integrated Tm:fiber laser. The oscillator uses polarization maintaining (PM) single mode fiber with 10/130 μm core/cladding diameters, and the amplifier uses large mode area PM fiber with 25/400 μm core/cladding diameters. The oscillator and amplifier are pumped using 793 nm diodes spliced with pump combiners, and the oscillator is spliced to the amplifier via a mode field adaptor.

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Lawrence Shah, R. Andrew Sims, Pankaj Kadwani, Christina C. C. Willis, Joshua B. Bradford, Zachary Roth, Aaron Pung, Menelaos Poutous, Eric G. Johnson, and Martin Richardson "Integrated 100-W polarized narrow linewidth thulium fiber MOPA system", Proc. SPIE 8237, Fiber Lasers IX: Technology, Systems, and Applications, 82371M (15 February 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.909292

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