• DocumentCode
    733670
  • Title

    Cladding-pumped Yb-doped fiber laser with vortex output beam

  • Author

    Lin, D. ; Clarkson, W.A.

  • Author_Institution
    Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Univ. of Southampton, Southampton, UK
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    10-15 May 2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    A simple technique for selectively generating a donut-shaped LP11 mode with vortex phase front in a cladding-pumped ytterbium-doped fiber laser is reported. The laser yielded 36W of output with a slope efficiency of 74%.
  • Keywords
    fibre lasers; laser beams; laser modes; optical fibre cladding; optical pumping; optical vortices; ytterbium; cladding-pumped ytterbium-doped fiber laser; donut-shaped LP11 mode; power 36 W; vortex output beam; vortex phase front; Laser beams; Optical beams; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber polarization; Optical vortices; Power generation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    7184111