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Finding the Missing Link for High-Power Fiber Lasers

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A move to fiber-based components promises to enable the wider commercial use of high-power fiber lasers.

François Gonthier, ITF Optical Technologies Inc.

Despite their record performance, high-power fiber lasers have made little progress in penetrating the marketplace. Fiber lasers must become cost-competitive if they are to replace the existing technologies, and they must be robust and durable. Laboratory high-performance fiber lasers lack these qualities because they use bulk optic coupling to pump light into the fiber. High-power fiber lasers on the market today employ proprietary fiber-based components or designs that couple the pump power into double-clad fibers. With the development of gain fiber and improvement to laser diodes,...Read full article

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    Published: November 2004
    bulk optic couplingCommunicationsdouble-clad fibersFeatureshigh-power fiber lasersindustriallaser diodes

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