Analysis of fabrication techniques and material systems for kW fibers limited by TMI
Haarlammert N, Kuhn S, Hupel C, Nold J, Schulze S, Moeller F, Distler V, Strecker M, Palma-Vega G, Hein S, Haessner D, Walbaum T, Schreiber T, Eberhardt R, Tuennermann A (2020)
Publication Type: Conference contribution
Publication year: 2020
Journal
Publisher: SPIE
Book Volume: 11260
Conference Proceedings Title: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Event location: San Francisco, CA, USA
ISBN: 9781510632837
DOI: 10.1117/12.2546714
Abstract
Nonlinear effects and transverse mode instabilities (TMI) limit power scaling of single-mode fiber lasers. To overcome these limitations not only the fiber design but also laser relevant properties of the actively doped material itself need to be optimized. By being able to fabricate Yb-doped fibers for high power applications in-house, we have direct access to laser relevant material parameters.We fabricated fibers using three different co-doping systems, namely Yb:Al:P, Yb:Al:F, and Yb:Al:F:Ce. Afterwards we characterized and compared their laser relevant properties. All three co-doping systems showed nearly identical background losses and absorption cross-sections. In contrast, we found that the PD losses and the factor between PD losses@633nm and the laser wavelength range (1μm) to be significantly different. The retrieved characterization results were implemented into our simulations tool in order to improve the reliability of predictions. Finally, we characterized the fibers in kW-amplifier setups according to their power scaling limits, especially the TMI threshold. This cycle of fiber fabrication, characterization, and simulation enabled us to identify the impact of individual fiber parameters on the TMI threshold. We demonstrated that the impact of PD loss leads to a reductions of the TMI threshold for Yb:Al:F co-doping system of 13% to 23% (depending on the Yb-concentration). The PD loss for the two other systems was proved to be significantly lower and was found to have no impact on the TMI threshold. We experimentally proved that your in-house Yb:Al:P and Yb:Al:F:Ce fibers performed like PD-free fibers.
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APA:
Haarlammert, N., Kuhn, S., Hupel, C., Nold, J., Schulze, S., Moeller, F.,... Tuennermann, A. (2020). Analysis of fabrication techniques and material systems for kW fibers limited by TMI. In Liang Dong (Eds.), Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. San Francisco, CA, USA: SPIE.
MLA:
Haarlammert, Nicoletta, et al. "Analysis of fabrication techniques and material systems for kW fibers limited by TMI." Proceedings of the Fiber Lasers XVII: Technology and Systems 2020, San Francisco, CA, USA Ed. Liang Dong, SPIE, 2020.
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