In this work, we present a compact size and highly efficient nanosecond pulsed 1550nm single mode fiber laser that can operate from -40C to +95C. The laser generates 2 to 10 ns pulses at a repetition rate of hundreds kHz to a few MHz with hundreds to kilowatt peak power. The design of this laser is optimized to achieve over 10% wall-plug efficiency at room temperature with an ultra-low ASE noise less than 1%. The performance is also well maintained with less than 30% EO (electrical-optical) efficiency degradation at extreme temperatures and demonstrates high reliability consistent with deployment into harsh environments.The robust performance makes the laser an ideal source for lidar and sensing applications, along with other medical, scientific, and industrial applications.
We report on industrial-grade femtosecond Yb fiber lasers with >100μJ pulse energy and <300fs pulse duration using a tunable all-fiber pulse shaper. The rugged, compact phase modulator is a lossless addition to the standard chirped-pulseamplification scheme. The automated multichannel phase control across the optical bandwidth enables generation of near transform-limited pulses at the laser output, improves unit-to-unit reproducibility of laser pulse characteristics, and reduces laser build time.
We report test data for narrow linewidth fiber amplifiers in a compact modular package and in all-fiber format with power up to 2.5kW and 2.0kW in non-PM and PM fiber configuration respectively for various scientific and advanced applications. Both fiber amplifiers have been pumped directly by laser diodes and have 3m output delivery cable. The fiber amplifiers have more than 35% wall-plug efficiency. Measured M2 values are ≤ 1.1. The amplifier data are discussed for different input linewidth and test conditions.
We report on a ruggedized compact modular package narrow linewidth fiber amplifiers with 1.5kW linear polarized output in an all-PM fiber configuration and 2 kW in non-PM fiber configuration for various scientific and advanced applications. The fiber amplifiers have 2m output cable with connector termination for 15GHz linewidth and 20GHz linewidth in PM and in non-PM fiber configuration respectively. The fiber amplifiers have 40% wall-plug efficiency and 15nm spectral bandwidth for 1064nm wavelength range. Measured M2 values of the output beam of the amplifiers are < 1.1.
We report an industrial grade picosecond and femtosecond pulse Yb fiber lasers with >100 μJ pulse energy and hundreds of Watts of average power for improved laser machining speed of sapphire and glass. This highly efficient laser offers >25% wall plug efficiency within a compact 3U rack-mountable configuration plus a long >2m fiber delivery cable. Reconfigurable features such as controllable repetition rate, fine pulse duration control, burst mode operation and adjustable pulse energy permit the customer to tailor the laser to their application.
Operation from 1030nm to 1070nm in single narrow linewidth fiber amplifier with >1.5kW output power is presented. The fiber amplifier has up to 3m output cable for <15GHz linewidth. The fiber amplifier in the ruggedized compact modular package has 40% wall-plug efficiency. The spectral dependence of higher order mode instability threshold is described.
Kilowatt-level narrow-linewidth SM ytterbium fiber laser operating in high-repetition-rate QCW regime was used to obtain 700 W average power at 532 nm with single-mode beam quality and wall-plug efficiency of over 23 %. To the best of our knowledge, this is ~60 % higher power than previously reported for single-mode green lasers based on other platforms, and also is ~30 % increase comparing to the previous result obtained by our group on the base of similar fiber laser platform. We have also experimentally proved that the same type of fiber laser can be used for generating of world-record levels of power at other wavelengths of visible and UV spectral ranges by employing cascaded non-linear frequency conversion. Thus, utilizing frequency tripling in 2 LBO crystals, we achieved over 160 W average power of nearly single-mode UV light at 355 nm with THG efficiency of more than 25 %. As far as we know, this is the highest output power ever reported for UV laser with nearly diffraction limited beam quality. We also conducted some preliminary experiments to demonstrate suitability of our approach for generating longer wavelengths of the visible spectrum. By pre-shifting fundamental emission wavelength in fiber Raman converter, followed by frequency doubling in NCPM LBO, we obtained average powers of 36 W at 589 nm and 27 W at 615 nm. These proof-of-concept experiments were performed with low-power pump laser and were not fully optimized with respect to frequency conversion. Our analysis indicates that employing kW-level QCW ytterbium laser with optimized SRS and SHG converters we can achieve hundreds of Watts of average power in red and orange color with single-mode beam quality.
100W linear-polarized single-mode CW emission is demonstrated in an all-fiber format at 1566 nm. The Yb3+/Er3+ doped fiber laser has an extinction ratio >20 dB and M2<1.1. Using an Yb-Er doped multi-mode fiber, the laser provides > 13% overall electrical efficiency and less than 4 nm linewidth without the onset of Yb ions generation at wavelength range of 1060-1080 nm. There are no saturation effects due to pump or nonlinear phenomena. Parasitic lasing is suppressed with fiber laser cavity design and specialty filters.
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