50-watt ytterbium-doped double-clad fiber laser

Qihong Lou; Jun Zhou; Jianqiang Zhu; Zhonglin Wu; Lingfeng Kong; Jingxing Dong; Zhenhuan Ye; Yunrong Wei; Zhijiang Wang

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Chinese Optics Letters
Vol. 1, Issue 10, 10559 (2003)

50-watt ytterbium-doped double-clad fiber laser

Qihong Lou, Jun Zhou^*, Jianqiang Zhu, Zhonglin Wu..., Lingfeng Kong, Jingxing Dong, Zhenhuan Ye, Yunrong Wei and Zhijiang Wang|Show fewer author(s)

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Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800

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Qihong Lou, Jun Zhou, Jianqiang Zhu, Zhonglin Wu, Lingfeng Kong, Jingxing Dong, Zhenhuan Ye, Yunrong Wei, Zhijiang Wang, "50-watt ytterbium-doped double-clad fiber laser," Chin. Opt. Lett. 1, 10559 (2003) Copy Citation Text

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Abstract

A ytterbium-doped double-clad fiber laser with more than 50-W output, near diffraction-limited is demonstrated in SIOM. The optical-to-optical efficiency is about 44% with respect to incident pump power and the slope efficiency is 69% against launched pump power.

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140.3480 140.3510 diode-pumped fiber 060.2320 fiber optics amplifiers and oscillators lasers