Another breakthrough for fiber lasers: 9x power increase without beam quality degradation
Recently, researchers from the University of South Australia (UniSA) , the University of Adelaide (UoA), and Yale University (US) have demonstrated that they can increase the power of fiber lasers by a factor of 3-9 with the help of a new multimode fiber, without degrading the quality of the beam, so that it can be focused on a distant target. The development was published in the journal Nature Communications . The joint Australian-American research team responsible for the study says that wavefront shaping of the input light raises the power threshold for SBS scattering by a full order of magnitude. For his part, Dr. Linh Nguyen, a researcher from the University of Adelaide, University of South Australia, said that this new approach will allow the industry to continue to output very high power from fiber lasers, making them more useful for the defense industry, remote sensing applications and gravitational wave detection. " High-power fiber lasers are criti...