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With ytterbium doped fiber (YDF) lasers and amplifiers have reached continuous wave output power of multi-kW with direct diode pumping [1] and 10kW with tandem pumping [2] in a good beam quality, today fiber lasers are becoming the laser choice for many industrial applications and processes, defense, and scientific research. One of the challenges of high average power fiber laser is to maintain a long-term stability of the output power. In particular, photodarkening (PD) is seen as a power loss in YDF gain medium that can significantly influence the operation lifetime of the device. Moreover, it was observed that the PD is related to the transverse mode instability (TMI) that can limit the output power of the laser [3].
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