High Energy (100 mJ) and High Peak Power (8 MW) Nanosecond Pulses Delivered by Fiber Lasers and Self-Focusing Analysis Based on a Novel Mode Decomposition Method

作者：Shen Xinglai; Zhang Haitao^*; Gong Mali

来源：IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 2018, 24(3): 0901306.

DOI：10.1109/JSTQE.2017.2764066

• Fiber amplifier
• self-focusing
• mode decomposition

Nanosecond (similar to 10 ns) laser pulses with high peak power of 8MW and high energy of 100 mJ are reported, which are generated by a cascaded pulsed Yb-doped fiber amplifier system working at a repetition frequency of 10 Hz. The peak power that is higher than the self-focusing threshold for Gaussian beams is achieved for the first time in the fiber lasers. To analyze the selffocusing threshold for multimode lasers in fibers, a novel mode decomposition based on the beam quality measurements is introduced. Based on the mode decomposition and nonlinear laser propagation simulations, the threshold of self-focusing for our case is estimated.

• 单位
  清华大学