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Optica, Optics Express, 25(11), p. 3346, 2003

DOI: 10.1364/oe.11.003346

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Highly sensitive beam quality measurements on large-mode-area fiber amplifiers

Journal article published in 2004 by Peter Weßels, Carsten Fallnich
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

The beam quality of large-mode-area fiber amplifiers was investigated at the 10 W power level using a tunable ring cavity, that is also used in the laboratory system of GEO600 as a pre-mode-cleaner for mode filtering. More than 98% of the overall output power were contained within the polarized (200:1) TEM00 mode with an appropriate choice of coiling diameter. With the high sensitivity ring cavity analysis, the beam quality improvement caused by decreasing the coiling diameter was verified, while this could not be seen within conventional M2-measurements. The results are compared with the properties of single-mode fibers.