Frontiers of Optoelectronics, Volume. 2, Issue 1, 61(2009)

10 W CW ytterbium-doped fiber laser with 4×1 fused fiber bundle combiner

Jihuang ZHANG1, Chao YANG1, Chuan HUANG1, Yuhua LI1, Nengli DAI1, Peixiang LU1、*, Zuowen JIANG2, Wei CHEN2, and Jinyan LI2
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  • 1Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
  • 2Fiberhome Telecommunication Tech Co Ltd, Wuhan 430074, China
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    An ytterbium-doped double-clad fiber laser with one-end pumped by four 915 nm laser diodes (LDs) combined by a homemade multimode fused fiber bundle combiner is proposed. The combiner, fused by splicing four fiber pigtails from diodes, exhibits a good capability of low-loss and a high efficiency of 92.7%. The fiber laser, which can generate a continuous-wave (CW) up to 10.3 W output power at 1104 nm with a homemade D-shape inner cladding ytterbium-doped fiber, is demonstrated. The slope efficiency is about 65% and the optical-to-optical conversion efficiency with respect to the pump power is 46% at its maximum output laser power.

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    Jihuang ZHANG, Chao YANG, Chuan HUANG, Yuhua LI, Nengli DAI, Peixiang LU, Zuowen JIANG, Wei CHEN, Jinyan LI. 10 W CW ytterbium-doped fiber laser with 4×1 fused fiber bundle combiner[J]. Frontiers of Optoelectronics, 2009, 2(1): 61

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    Paper Information

    Received: Aug. 27, 2007

    Accepted: Nov. 8, 2007

    Published Online: Oct. 8, 2012

    The Author Email: LU Peixiang (lupeixiang@mail.hust.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1007/s12200-008-0039-8

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