Abstract
We investigated the beam quality of ytterbium-doped large-mode-area fiber amplifiers using a tunable ring cavity, that is also used in the laboratory system of GEO600 as a pre-mode-cleaner for mode filtering. Depending on the coiling diameter, more than 98 % of the output power were contained within the polarized (200:1) TEM00 mode. With the high sensitivity ring cavity analysis, the beam quality improvement caused by decreasing the coiling diameter was verified, while this could not be seen within conventional M2-measurements.
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