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Yuan Zhu

at Leibniz-Institut für Photonische Technologien

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Proceedings Article | 14 March 2018 Presentation

Laser beam quality improvement of REPUSIL-based rod amplifier with local short adiabatic taper (Conference Presentation)

Yuan Zhu, Martin Lorenz, Tina Eschrich, Martin Leich, Claudia Aichele, Jens Kobelke, Hartmut Bartelt, Matthias Jäger

Proceedings Volume 10512, 105121H (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2286895

KEYWORDS: Fiber amplifiers, Amplifiers, Diffusion, Fiber lasers, Laser processing, Multimode fibers, Tapered optical fibers

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Fiber amplifiers with a robust monolithic seed coupling and very high peak power in a near diffraction-limited beam are increasingly demanded by many industrial applications in laser materials processing. A tapered all-solid rod-type fiber amplifier scheme is proposed. The principle of this approach is the use of a local adiabatic taper to provide a monolithic signal path and selectively excite the fundamental mode in highly multimode fiber. A large mode area fiber is used to scale up the peak power and suppress the nonlinear effects. The powder-sintering technology (REPUSIL) was employed to achieve rod-type fibers with excellent refractive index homogeneity. In this work, we present a double-clad Yb3+-doped rod-type REPUSIL fiber with a core/clad diameter of 45µm/190µm and a core/clad numerical aperture of 0.09/0.19.This developed fiber has a relatively low Al3+-concentration to reduce diffusion during tapering and an optimized outer cladding material to reduce the taper process temperature. Finally it is demonstrated that the diffusion phenomenon is successfully eliminated and the near-diffraction limited beam quality during the amplification process is maintained. First experiments with improved Yb3+-doped rod-type amplifiers delivered 2ns pulses with peak powers of 210kW for the non-tapered rod and 140kW for the tapered rod (limited by facet damage). For the tapered fiber, the beam quality was between 1.3 and 1.7, significantly improved compared to the beam quality of the non-tapered fiber (M2 = 3.3 ~ 4.5). Future work will concentrate on adopting endcaps to protect the fiber facets from damage while scaling up the peak power.

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