>5kW Record High Power Narrow Linewidth Laser From Traditional Step-Index Monolithic Fiber Amplifier

Abstract

A high-power monolithic continuous wave (CW) Yb doped fiber amplifier at 1064 nm has been demonstrated based on traditional large mode area step-index fiber, which generated 5.07 kW narrow line-width laser with near diffraction-limited beam quality. At the maximal output power, >35dB OSNR has been achieved with line-width being 370pm, and the measured beam quality is M <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</sup> <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">x</sub> = 1.252, M <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</sup> <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">y</sub> = 1.322. The influence of cooling temperature on SRS has been investigated in high power fiber lasers, which shows that the SRS at 4kW has been suppressed 24 dB by lowering the temperature from 20°C to 8°C. To the best of our knowledge, this is the highest narrow line-width laser power generated from the traditional large mode area step-index monolithic fiber amplifier.