Real-time in-situ distributed fiber core temperature measurement in hundred-watt fiber laser oscillator pumped by 915/976nm LD sources
Open Access
- 2 June 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Scientific Reports
- Vol. 10 (1), 1-8
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-66470-3
Abstract
In this manuscript, we studied the thermal properties of hundred-watt fiber laser oscillator by real-time in-situ distributed temperature measurement. Optical frequency domain reflectometry (OFDR) was introduced to measure the temperature distribution of gain fiber core. The fiber laser oscillator operated at 1080nm and the wavelength of detecting signal from OFDR was similar to 1550nm. The maximum output power of this fiber oscillator was 100W. The fiber core temperature distributions in experiment agree well with our theoretical simulation. The temperature measurement of gain fiber core in oscillator has always been a problem because the backward laser from the oscillator may reduce the signal-to-noise ratio in OFDR. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first temperature distribution measurement of fiber core in hundred-watt oscillator. By the experimental measurement and theoretical model, we also analyzed the thermal properties of laser oscillator respectively pumped by 915nm and 976nm LD sources. We found fiber laser oscillator pumped by 976nm LD sources experienced not only higher maximum thermal load but also higher average thermal load than that pumped by 915nm LD sources at the same level output power. We also analyzed the fiber core temperature of other components in system, such as combiners and fiber Bragg gratings (FBG). These results are meaningful for us to improve the thermal design and management in fiber lasers.This publication has 25 references indexed in Scilit:
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