Abstract

We report the fabrication and characterization of a five-tube nested hollow-core anti-resonant fiber (Nested HC-ARF), which exhibits outstanding optical performance in terms of a record attenuation value of 0.85 dB/km at 2 µm wavelength range with a 200 nm bandwidth below 2 dB/km and excellent modal purity. The power handling capability of the Nested HC-ARF is also demonstrated in this work. Pulses of 75 W, 160 ps from the thulium-doped fiber laser are delivered using a 6-m-long fabricated Nested HC-ARF. The tested fiber is coiled into a 20 cm bending radius and achieves a coupling efficiency of 86.7%. The maximum average power of 60.5 W is transmitted through our Nested HC-ARF in a robust single-mode fashion without introducing any damage to the input and output fiber end-faces, which demonstrates the superior ability of such a fiber for high-power laser delivery.

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