Incoherent beam combining of 5.1kW using a 7×1 signal combiner into a 50µm core output fiber

Eschrich, Tina; Hoh, Denny; Just, Florian; Kobelke, Jens; Unger, Sonja; Jäger, Matthias; Bartelt, Hartmut

doi:10.1364/bgpp.2014.jtu6a.1

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“…The measured beam quality was M 2 = 6.5 with a 2.3 kW output. In 2014, a 7 × 1 signal fiber combiner with an output core diameter NA of 0.2 and a 50 µm core diameter could achieve a total average power of 5.1 kW, and M 2 was Laser Physics 3 × 1 all-fiber signal combiner with high beam quality for high-power lasers 6.8 with five input ports being used [19]. In 2015, two different combiners with 50 µm output core diameters (NA = 0.22) were reported, and a high beam quality of M 2 = 6.5 and 4.6 was obtained with an output power higher than 5 kW, which showed great potential in the high-power and high-brightness application [20,21].…”

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3 × 1 all-fiber signal combiner with high beam quality for high-power lasers

Yang

Lei

et al. 2019

Laser Phys.

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An all-fiber signal combiner is an essential component to break through the incoherent beam output power limitation of fiber laser power. So far, the high-power signal combiners reported before usually had output core diameters of higher than 100 µm with NAs of 0.22, leading to serious beam quality degradation. In order to improve the beam quality, a 50 µm core diameter output fiber with a smaller NA of 0.12 is utilized in this work. We have theoretically made a detailed simulation of the combiner. Combiners with three 20/400 µm input fibers are fabricated, and three ~1064 nm fiber lasers with a maximum output power of over 2 kW have been used as the input light source. A maximum output power of up to 6.06 kW was achieved by incoherent beam combining, and the final output power was 6.06 kW with a beam quality factor (M2) of 3.69. To our best knowledge, it is the first report on a multi-kW class laser based on a beam combiner with an M2 of less than 4.

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