We assess different power limits of cladding-pumped fiber lasers. Despite recent advances in pump sources, these are still primarily limited by available pump power. We find that it should be possible to reach output powers beyond 1 kW in single-mode ytterbium doped fiber lasers. Experimentally, we have realized an ytterbium-doped fiber laser with 272 W of output power at 1080 nm, with an M2-value of 3.2, as well as an erbium-ytterbium co-doped fiber laser with 103 W of output power at 1565 nm, with an M2-value of 2.0. We believe these are the highest-power ytterbium and erbium-ytterbium fiber lasers ever reported.


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    Title :

    High-power fiber lasers: new developments


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Advances in Fiber Lasers ; 2003 ; San Jose,CA,United States


    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2003-07-03





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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