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Designing Fiber for Better Lasers

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Custom-designed fibers suppress nonlinearities and boost output power.

Donnell Walton, Corning Inc.

Fiber lasers are becoming increasingly popular alternatives for applications that require high power — hundreds of watts to kilowatts — such as materials processing, surgery and biochemistry. Their high efficiency, enviable beam quality, small footprint and low maintenance requirements make them ideal replacements for many other types of lasers that have dominated the marketplace in recent decades. Although it seems counterintuitive that a tiny glass fiber, roughly the diameter of a human hair, could rival the output power of huge industrial lasers, the fiber’s small size is actually the...Read full article

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