Abstract
A high-power all-fiber radially polarized laser system is demonstrated, in which an integrated nanograting mode convertor (S-wave plate) is used for the generation of radially polarized beam. Experimentally, a 1-W radially polarized beam was used as the seed laser, whose mode purity and mode extinction ratio (MER) were 96.5% and 98.3%, respectively. A single-stage few-mode fiber amplifier was employed to boost the 1-W seed laser to an average power of 113.2 W, when the pump power was 160 W. The corresponding slope efficiency and beam quality factor (M2) were approximately 72% and 2.3%, respectively. Moreover, the mode purity and MER of the amplified radially polarized laser were measured to be 95.7% and 97%, respectively. To the best of our knowledge, this is the highest output power from an all-fiber radially polarized laser system without obvious degradations of the mode purity and MER.
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