Abstract

Fiber gas lasers based on gas-filled hollow-core fibers (HCFs) perfectly combine the advantages of fiber lasers and gas lasers and have obtained fast development in the past years. However, stable and efficient coupling of high-power pump lasers into the HCFs is one of the key problems to be solved. In this paper, we study the coupling of high-power continuous wave fiber lasers into anti-resonant HCFs through an end-cap. By optimizing the splicing parameters, a maximum laser power of 1167 W was injected into the 1-m-long HCFs, and 1021 W was obtained at the output end, giving a total transmission efficiency of ∼87.5%. A more than 1 h test showed the stability of such a coupling method. Meanwhile, the laser beam quality was well maintained. This work opens new opportunities for stable and highly efficient coupling of high-power lasers into HCFs, which is significant for its applications in many other fields besides high-power fiber gas lasers, such as high-power laser delivering.

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