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High-brightness all-fiber Raman lasers directly pumped by multimode laser diodes. / Babin, S. A.
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T1 - High-brightness all-fiber Raman lasers directly pumped by multimode laser diodes
AU - Babin, S. A.
PY - 2019/3/13
Y1 - 2019/3/13
N2 - High-brightness fiber laser sources usually utilize active rare-earth-doped fibers cladding-pumped by multimode laser diodes (LDs), but they operate in limited wavelength ranges. Singlemode-passive-fiber based Raman lasers are able to operate at almost any wavelength being pumped by high-power fiber lasers. One of the interesting possibilities is to directly pump graded-index (GRIN) multimode passive fibers by available high-power multimode LDs at 915-940 nm, thus achieving high-power Raman lasing in the wavelength range of 950-1000 nm, which is problematic for rare-earth-doped fiber lasers. Here we review the latest results on the development of all-fiber high-brightness LD-pumped sources based on GRIN fiber with in-fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs). The mode-selection properties of FBGs inscribed by fs pulses supported by the Raman clean-up effect result in efficient conversion of multimode pump into a high-quality output beam at 9xx nm. GRIN fibers with core diameters 62.5, 85 and are compared. Further scaling capabilities and potential applications of such sources are discussed.
AB - High-brightness fiber laser sources usually utilize active rare-earth-doped fibers cladding-pumped by multimode laser diodes (LDs), but they operate in limited wavelength ranges. Singlemode-passive-fiber based Raman lasers are able to operate at almost any wavelength being pumped by high-power fiber lasers. One of the interesting possibilities is to directly pump graded-index (GRIN) multimode passive fibers by available high-power multimode LDs at 915-940 nm, thus achieving high-power Raman lasing in the wavelength range of 950-1000 nm, which is problematic for rare-earth-doped fiber lasers. Here we review the latest results on the development of all-fiber high-brightness LD-pumped sources based on GRIN fiber with in-fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs). The mode-selection properties of FBGs inscribed by fs pulses supported by the Raman clean-up effect result in efficient conversion of multimode pump into a high-quality output beam at 9xx nm. GRIN fibers with core diameters 62.5, 85 and are compared. Further scaling capabilities and potential applications of such sources are discussed.
KW - beam cleaning
KW - fiber laser
KW - high brightness
KW - laser diode pumping
KW - Raman laser
KW - BEAM
KW - CW
KW - EFFICIENCY
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85062901521&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1017/hpl.2018.76
DO - 10.1017/hpl.2018.76
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85062901521
VL - 7
JO - High Power Laser Science and Engineering
JF - High Power Laser Science and Engineering
SN - 2095-4719
M1 - 15
ER -
ID: 18860074