Diffraction-limited, 300-kW peak-power pulses from a coiled multimode fiber amplifier

Opt Lett. 2002 Apr 1;27(7):518-20. doi: 10.1364/ol.27.000518.

Abstract

We report a multimode, double-clad, Yb-doped fiber amplifier that produces diffraction-limited, 0.8-ns pulses with energies of 255 muJ and peak powers in excess of 300 kW at a repetition rate of ~8 kHz . Single-transverse-mode operation was obtained by bend-loss-induced mode filtering of the gain fiber.