Diode-Pumped 1178-nm High-Power Yb-Doped Fiber Laser Operating at 125 $^{\circ}$C

We demonstrate a high-power Yb-doped fiber laser operating at 1178 nm based on commercial silica double-cladding fiber and laser diode (LD) pumping regime at 976 nm. It is experimentally proved that heating the active fiber is an efficient way to suppress amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) and to increase the parasitic lasing threshold in long-wavelength Yb-doped fiber lasers. By adopting output coupling fiber Bragg grating (OC FBG) with high reflectivity and heating the Yb-doped fiber to 125 °C, a record output power of 31 W is obtained, and the corresponding slope efficiency is ~44% with respect to the pump power. To the best of our knowledge, it is the highest output power of Yb-doped fiber lasers, which adopt commercial double-cladding active fiber and operate in the range beyond 1160 nm. Furthermore, it is first experimentally proved that the parasitic lasing threshold is related to the power of the backward ASE and the length of the active fiber.

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