High-Brightness Incoherent Combination of Fiber Lasers in 7 × 1 Fiber Couplers at Average Powers > 5 kW

in: Journal of Lightwave Technology (2015)
Eschrich, Tina; de Vries, Oliver; Kobelke, Jens; Schreiber, T.; Unger, Sonja; Eberhardt, Ramona; Bartelt, Hartmut; Tünnermann, Andreas; Plötner, Marco; Jäger, Matthias
We report on the experimental realization of two different low-loss single- to multimode fiber coupler designs, each combining more than 5 kW of output power. The adiabatic mode evolution in the seven-fiber input bundle provides a brightness close to its theoretical maximum. The all-glass structures exhibit very low heat loads mainly due to small avoidable contamination, indicating room for improvement. To the best of our knowledge, regarding all-fiber geometrical combined power generation, beam quality and heat stability, the presented results had never been reported before.

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