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Fiber lasers have been widely used in the industrial and scientific fields due to their advantages of high conversion efficiency, simple thermal management, and consistent stability. High brightness and high-power fiber lasers are affected by stimulated Raman scattering and transverse mode instability, which limits the power scaling of fiber lasers. Therefore, there are only a few researches achieving a 10 kW-level fiber laser system by laser diode direct pumping or tandem pumping. In this work, we demonstrate an all-fiber laser amplifier based on home-made low numerical aperture (NA) fiber pumped by 976 nm laser diodes. When the signal light is input to the gain fiber with a minimum bending diameter of 12 cm, the beam quality factor M2 is about 1.72. The onset of transverse mode instability (TMI) is observed at 2467 W output power, accompanied by beam quality degradation. In order to suppress the onset of TMI, the minimum bending diameter of the gain fiber is changed from 12 cm to 20 cm. And the signal light is input into the gain fiber with a bending diameter of 28 cm. Benefiting from this operation, the fiber laser amplifier achieves maximum output power of 10.53 kW with an optical-to-optical efficiency of 74.04%, and there is no TMI onset observed. However, increasing bending diameter inevitably leads the beam quality to degrade. At the maximum output power, the beam quality factor M2 is 2.88. To the best of our knowledge, this is the highest optical-to-optical efficiency and the best beam quality in 10 kW-level laser diodes pumping fiber lasers. Generally, it is believed that reducing bending diameter can suppress TMI by increasing high-order mode loss. However, this rule is not applicable to few-mode fiber lasers. A larger bending diameter leads more high-order modes to be contained in the signal light instead of leaking into the cladding area. Thus, a higher output and poor beam quality are obtained. Also, it is believed that tightly coiled fiber can make mode coupling easier and trigger off TMI, which results in a positive correlation between the TMI threshold and bending diameter. Low NA fibers are very sensitive to bending, and reducing the bend diameter to control the beam quality will result in lower efficiency and a lower TMI threshold. Therefore, although producing a 10 kW-level fiber laser is simple, maintaining good beam quality in the power scaling process is still a challenge. The results of this study will be a valuable reference for high power fiber laser design.
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图 1 放大器实验结构图 (a)放大器实验结构; (b) 高模式损耗实验YDF弯曲设置; (c) 低模式损耗实验YDF弯曲设置
Figure 1. Schematic diagram of fiber laser amplifier: (a) Structure of fiber laser amplifier; (b) bending setup of high model loss experiment; (c) bending setup of low model loss experiment.
图 2 弯曲损耗随弯曲直径的分布
Figure 2. Bending loss distribution versus bending diameters.
图 3 小弯曲直径时光纤激光放大器输出特性 (a)输出功率与光光转换效率随泵浦功率的变化以及最高输出时光斑形态(插图); (b) 2543 W时输出光谱
Figure 3. Output characteristics of fiber laser amplifier at small bending diameter: (a) Output power and optical-to-optical efficiency versus pump power; the inset is beam profile at the highest output; (b) output spectrum at 2543 W.
图 4 不同功率下时域信号与对应频谱
Figure 4. Time domain signal and corresponding spectrum under different output.
图 5 大弯曲直径时光纤激光放大器输出特性 (a) 输出功率与光光转换效率随泵浦功率的变化; (b) 10530 W时输出光谱; (c) 10530 W时域信号与对应频谱; (d) 10530 W时的光束质量(D4σ表示光束强度轮廓横向能量分布的四倍标准差)
Figure 5. Output characteristics of fiber laser amplifier at big bending diameter: (a) Output power and optical-to-optical efficiency versus pump power; (b) output spectrum at 10530 W; (c) time domain signal and corresponding spectrum at 10530 W; (d) beam quality at 10530 W.
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Gu B 2020 Mach. Metal Forming 10 37
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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