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9 March 2023 All-fiber integrated 85um core chirally-coupled core fiber high energy amplifiers for compact coherently combined laser arrays
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Proceedings Volume 12400, Fiber Lasers XX: Technology and Systems; 124000I (2023) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2650915
Event: SPIE LASE, 2023, San Francisco, California, United States
Abstract
We report development of 85µm core Yb-doped and Ge-doped chirally-coupled-core (CCC) fibers, and their integration via fusion-splicing into an all-fiber optical amplifier system. This system, consisting of a CCC fiber amplifier and a 6+1 fusion-spliced signal-pump-combiner with a passive CCC fiber feed-through produces robust single mode output (diffraction-limited) in a counter-pumped configuration with passive-fiber leads as short as ~30cm. The Yb-doped 85µm core CCC fiber amplifiers had produced ~10mJ energy pulses at close to ~100W of average power. This achieved performance and monolithic all-fiber integration are required for compact and robust coherently-combined laser array drivers of laser plasma accelerators.
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Mingshu Chen, Alexander Rainville, Manoj Kanskar, Jim Zhang, Ossi Kimmelma, Arto Nieminen, Donald Sipes, Brian Schulz, Carson Shollenbarger, Tong Zhou, Russell Wilcox, and Almantas Galvanauskas "All-fiber integrated 85um core chirally-coupled core fiber high energy amplifiers for compact coherently combined laser arrays", Proc. SPIE 12400, Fiber Lasers XX: Technology and Systems, 124000I (9 March 2023); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2650915
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KEYWORDS
Current controlled current source

Fiber amplifiers

Fiber lasers

Optical amplifiers

Plasma

Plasma generation

Prototyping

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