Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5449333 | Optics Communications | 2017 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
We report on the hybrid beam combination of five unpolarized fiber lasers with the output power of 5.02Â kW. Each fiber laser provides the output with average power of 1.1Â kW and full width half maximum (FWHM) linewidth of 0.3Â nm. The five beams with different wavelength are first split into two orthogonal linear polarizations, spectrally combined by dual multilayer dielectric (MLD) diffraction gratings in turn, finally combined into a single beam using a polarization beam combiner. This hybrid system features a combining efficiency of 91.2%, the beam quality of M2=2.96Ã1.52, and excellent prospects for significant power scaling.
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Authors
Hong Yan, Yi Ma, Yinhong Sun, Lei Zhao, Fei Tian, Kai Zhang, Chun Tang, Xiaojun Wang, Wanjing Peng, Tenglong Li, Xiaobao Liang, Jianming Li, Shufeng Wang, Wei Zhang,