Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 5, Issue 4, 221(2007)
High power low-order modes operation of a multimode fiber laser
Coiling technique is used to suppress high-order modes of a large mode area (LMA) double clad multimode fiber. Output powers and beam quality factors M2 are measured under two different coiling radii. 217 W with M2 of 2.96 can be obtained for coiling radius of 165 mm and 160 W with M2 of 1.38 for 52 mm. The corresponding slope efficiencies are 60% and 48%. With smaller coiling radius, the brightness is 3.4 times as high as that of the larger one.
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Libo Li, Qihong Lou, Jun Zhou, Jingxing Dong, Yunrong Wei, Jinyan Li, "High power low-order modes operation of a multimode fiber laser," Chin. Opt. Lett. 5, 221 (2007)