Development status of high power fiber lasers and their coherent beam combination

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Abstract

High-power fiber laser has been emerged great potential in a wide range of applications and becomes a robust candidate for high energy solid state laser system. To further increase the output brightness of single-channel fiber laser, high-brightness pump sources and high-power-handling passive components should be fabricated and utilized in the fiber laser systems, in addition to the advanced techniques for multiple nonlinear effects managements. The state-of-the-art high power fiber lasers are reviewed, in terms of narrow-linewidth fiber lasers, broadband fiber lasers and fiber lasers at 2 μm. Coherent beam combining is a promising technique to obtain higher output power while maintaining excellent beam quality simultaneously, which breaks through the bottlenecks of single-channel fiber laser. Based on a series of key techniques for coherent beam combining, high-power coherent beam combining of fiber lasers could be enabled with high combining efficiency. In this paper, we review the progress of high-power fiber lasers and their coherent beam combining in the recent decade, particularly the relevant work in our group. The future prospects of fiber lasers and coherent beam combining technique are also discussed.

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This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61705264, 61705265). Authors would like to acknowledge Jinyong LENG, Hu XIAO, Yanxing MA, Jiangming XU, Xiaolin WANG, Zilun CHEN, Liangjin HUANG, Wei LIU, Tianyue HOU, Baolai YANG, and Zhaokai LOU in College of Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, National University of Defense Technology for their collaboration.

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Liu, Z., Jin, X., Su, R. et al. Development status of high power fiber lasers and their coherent beam combination. Sci. China Inf. Sci. 62, 41301 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11432-018-9742-0

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Keywords

  • fiber lasers and amplifiers
  • nonlinear effects and mode instability
  • coherent beam combining
  • passive components
  • 2 μm fiber lasers