High power Q-switched short-length fiber laser

We report on a Q-switched photonic crystal fiber laser with a 60-mum ytterbium-doped core. Sub-10-ns pulses with 2.5-mJ energy are generated at low repetition rates and up to 100-W average power at 100-kHz in single-transverse-mode output.

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