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Fiber pump lasers are widely used in a variety of fields, such as optical fiber communication, national defense, and medical beauty due to their high beam quality and intense laser energy. However, the alignment errors of optical parameters can influence the beam quality in the packaging of the fiber pump lasers. It is necessary to analyze the reflector, focusing lens, fiber, and the laser diode on the coupling influence between for guiding the fiber pump laser packaging. Firstly, we establish the optical path between the laser diode, focusing lens and reflector based on the physical ray-tracing method. On the other hand, the high coupling efficiency of whole system is achieved by optimize the parameters of each optical element. The simulation result shows that the highest coupling efficiency is 98.6% based on optimizing the parameters of the optical path while the experimental result of coupling efficiency is 90.36%. Also, the effects of refractive index, wavelength and fiber diameter on coupling efficiency are further investigated. The experimental results show that the radial displacement has the greatest influence on the coupling efficiency. The simulation results show that increasing the fiber core diameter can effectively improve the coupling efficiency. The results of rigorous analysis will provide an effective reference for manufacturing compact, high coupling efficiency fiber pumped laser.
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This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant U22A20200), and the Project of State Key Laboratory of Precision Manufacturing for Extreme Service Performance, Central South University (Kfkt2022-14).
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Zhu Ma wrote the main manuscript text. Xiaoyan Sun and Shunshun Zhong visualized the figures. Lian Duan and Fan Zhang investigated the methods. Ji'an Duan and Yixiong Yan presented the conception. All authors reviewed the manuscript.
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Ma, Z., Sun, X., Yan, Y. et al. The coupling study between multi-channel laser diodes and multimode fiber in a fiber pump laser. Opt Quant Electron 56, 734 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11082-023-05956-6
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