High-beam quality, high-efficiency laser based on fiber with heavily Yb(3+)-doped phosphate core and silica cladding.

Autor: Egorova ON, Semjonov SL, Medvedkov OI, Astapovich MS, Okhrimchuk AG, Galagan BI, Denker BI, Sverchkov SE, Dianov EM
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Optics letters [Opt Lett] 2015 Aug 15; Vol. 40 (16), pp. 3762-5.
DOI: 10.1364/OL.40.003762
Abstrakt: We have fabricated and tested a composite fiber with an Yb(3+)-doped phosphate glass core and silica cladding. Oscillation with a slope efficiency of 74% was achieved using core pumping at 976 nm with fiber lengths of 48-90 mm in a simple laser configuration, where the cavity was formed by a high-reflectivity Bragg grating and the cleaved fiber end. The measured M(2) factors were as low as 1.05-1.22 even though the fiber was multimode at the lasing wavelength.
Databáze: MEDLINE