A ytterbium-doped large-mode-area step-index fiber perform was fabricated by chelate precursor doping technique. For
the purpose of raising the threshold of nonlinear effects and transverse mode instability simultaneously, a long tapered
fiber was drew by changing the perform drawing speed. The core/cladding diameter of this tapered fiber was varied from
10/155 to 26/400 μm in 18m-long with the tapering ratio of 2.6. Using this fiber as a gain medium for a fiber laser in
amplifier, the beam quality factor M2 was ~1.2 when the output power obtained over 1.2kW with slope efficiency of
74.5%. The laser output spectrum was centered at 1063.8nm with narrow 3dB bandwidth of 0.26nm. The stimulated
Raman scattering suppression ratio was about ~34.7dB.
To ensure sufficient absorption of tandem-pumping energy, a large-scale aluminophosphosilicate fiber with 55 μm core and 400 μm inner-clad in diameter, i.e., a 55/400 Yb-APS fiber, was experimentally fabricated by using modified chemical vapor deposition system combining with chelate precursor doping technique. Based on an all-fiberized master oscillator power-amplifier laser setup tandem-pumped by 1018 nm fibber laser, a 150 W 1080 nm seed was amplified to 11.18 kW successfully, along with an optical-to-optical efficiency of 79.7%.
We fabricated and reported a pedestal fiber with Yb/Ce-codoped aluminosilicate (Al2O3-SiO2) core and germanosilicate (GeO2-SiO2) pedestal. This newly-optimized chelate precursor doping technique enables us to make homogeneous large-core pedestal fiber with strong pump absorption from Yb3+ ions about 3.66dB/m at 915nm. The fiber core was homogeneously doped with 4450ppm Yb3+, 11600ppm Al3+ and 1800ppm Ce3+, and surrounded by pedestal layers with 25000ppm Ge4+. The results indicate all-gas-phase chelate precursor doping technique is highly competitive for the fabrication of pedestal fiber towards narrow-linewidth fiber laser.
Based on a master oscillator power amplifier configuration, laser performance of commercial Nufern-20/400-8M Ybdoped aluminophosphosilicate ternary laser fiber was investigated. Pumped by 976 nm laser diodes, 982 W laser output power was obtained with a slope efficiency of 84.9%. Spectrum of output was centered at 1066.56nm with 3dB bandwidth less than 0.32 nm, and the nonlinearity suppression ratio was more than 39dB. Beam quality of Mx2 and M2y were 1.55 and 1.75 at 982 W, respectively. The laser performance indicated that Nufern-20/400-8M Yb-doped aluminophosphosilicate ternary laser fiber is highly competitive for industry fiber laser use.
To investigate the laser performance of Ce/ Yb-codoped aluminosilicate (Al2O3-SiO2) binary glass fiber, we took commercial Nufern-20/400-9M fiber as a research object. 0.95 kW laser output power at 1066 nm with an optical-to-optical efficiency of 83.3% was achieved at fiber laser amplifier stage. Beam quality of Mx2 and My2 is 1.56 and 1.68 at 0.95 kW, respectively. The results indicate Nufern-20/400-9M fiber may be suitable
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