Low-NA fiber laser pumps powered by high-brightness single emitters

Dan Yanson; Moshe Levy; Ophir Peleg; Noam Rappaport; Moshe Shamay; Nir Dahan; Genady Klumel; Yuri Berk; Ilya Baskin

doi:10.1117/12.2079422

13 March 2015 Low-NA fiber laser pumps powered by high-brightness single emitters

Dan Yanson, Moshe Levy, Ophir Peleg, Noam Rappaport, Moshe Shamay, Nir Dahan, Genady Klumel, Yuri Berk, Ilya Baskin

Proceedings Volume 9348, High-Power Diode Laser Technology and Applications XIII; 934806 (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2079422
Event: SPIE LASE, 2015, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Fiber laser manufacturers demand high-brightness laser diode pumps delivering optical pump energy in both a compact fiber core and narrow angular content. A pump delivery fiber of a 105 μm core and 0.22 numerical aperture (NA) is typically used, where the fiber NA is under-filled to ease the launch of laser diode emission into the fiber and make the fiber tolerant to bending. At SCD, we have developed high-brightness NEON multi-emitter fiber-coupled pump modules that deliver 50 W output from a 105 μm, 0.15 NA fiber enabling low-NA power delivery to a customer’s fiber laser network. Brightness-enhanced single emitters are engineered with ultra-low divergence for compatibility with the low-NA delivery fiber, with the latest emitters delivering 14 W with 95% of the slow-axis energy contained within an NA of 0.09. The reduced slow-axis divergence is achieved with an optimized epitaxial design, where the peak optical intensity is reduced to both lessen filamentation within the laser cavity and reduce the power density on the output facet thus increasing the emitter reliability. The low mode filling of the fiber allows it to be coiled with diameters down to 70 mm at full operating power despite the small NA and further eliminates the need for mode-stripping at fiber combiners and splices downstream from our pump modules. 50W fiber pump products at 915, 950 and 975 nm wavelengths are presented, including a wavelengthstabilized version at 976 nm.

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Dan Yanson, Moshe Levy, Ophir Peleg, Noam Rappaport, Moshe Shamay, Nir Dahan, Genady Klumel, Yuri Berk, and Ilya Baskin "Low-NA fiber laser pumps powered by high-brightness single emitters", Proc. SPIE 9348, High-Power Diode Laser Technology and Applications XIII, 934806 (13 March 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2079422

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