A high-power LD-pumped linearly polarized Yb-doped fiber laser operating at 1152 nm with 42 GHz narrow linewidth and 18 dB PER

We demonstrate a high-power 1152 nm narrow-linewidth linearly polarized fiber laser based on a commercial polarization-maintaining double cladding Yb-doped fiber and cladding-pump regime at 976 nm. By carefully selecting the parameters of the cavity and heating the gain fiber, a maximum output power of 13 W with a slope efficiency of ~45% is obtained, with the amplified spontaneous emission suppressed more than 35 dB lower than the signal wavelength. The polarization extinction ratio and 3 dB linewidth at the maximum output power are 18 dB and 0.14 nm (~42 GHz) respectively, while no spectral broadening and polarization degradation are observed in the process of power scaling, which is an attractive result for some special applications, such as frequency doubling.

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