500 W continuous-wave fibre laser with excellent beam quality

17 April 2003

journal article
Published by Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) in Electronics Letters

Vol. 39 (8) , 645-647
https://doi.org/10.1049/el:20030447

Abstract

Power scaling of continuous-wave fibre lasers with up to 0.5 kW output powers from a single fibre with nearly diffraction-limited beam quality without the limitation of nonlinear effects is reported.

Keywords

500 W
SINGLE FIBRE CONFIGURATION
POWER SCALING
CONTINUOUS-WAVE FIBRE LASER
LOW-NUMERICAL APERTURE FIBRES
LARGE-MODE-AREA FIBRES
HIGH POWER LASER
CW FIBRE LASER
NEARLY DIFFRACTION-LIMITED BEAM QUALITY

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