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High-brightness all-fiber Raman lasers directly pumped by multimode laser diodes. / Babin, S. A.

In: High Power Laser Science and Engineering, Vol. 7, 15, 13.03.2019.

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Babin SA. High-brightness all-fiber Raman lasers directly pumped by multimode laser diodes. High Power Laser Science and Engineering. 2019 Mar 13;7:15. doi: 10.1017/hpl.2018.76

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Babin, S. A. / High-brightness all-fiber Raman lasers directly pumped by multimode laser diodes. In: High Power Laser Science and Engineering. 2019 ; Vol. 7.

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title = "High-brightness all-fiber Raman lasers directly pumped by multimode laser diodes",
abstract = "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.",
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