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Abstract
Traditional monolithic fiber lasers can only achieve unidirectional high-power laser output. In this Letter, a novel high-power linear cavity fiber laser that can achieve bidirectional high-power output is proposed and demonstrated. In an ordinary laser resonant cavity, we replace the high-reflectivity fiber Bragg grating with a low-reflectivity fiber Bragg grating to realize bidirectional laser output. In our experiment, the laser cavity was composed of two fiber Bragg gratings with a reflectivity of about 10%. The pump power provided by the 976 nm laser diodes was injected into a double-clad Yb-doped fiber with core/cladding diameters of 20/400 µm. At the maximum pump power, the bidirectional output powers were 2025 W and 1948 W, respectively, and the output laser beam quality (M2 factor) at both ends was about 1.5. For the first time, to the best of our knowledge, the feasibility of a bidirectional output fiber laser that can achieve double high (2-kW-level) power was verified. Compared with a traditional unidirectional output laser, this type of bidirectional output laser can achieve a double high-power laser by employing a laser resonant cavity. Thus, the average cost and structure size can be further reduced in mass production.
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