Abstract
Pulsed laser sources emitting in the deep-UV (DUV) spectral range, at wavelengths < 240 nm, are interesting for many scientific and industrial applications such as materials processing, micro-structuring or laser-induced spectroscopy. High power (>1W), efficient laser sources in the UV are mainly based on infrared emitting laser sources followed by non-linear frequency conversion stages [1, 2]. To access UV wavelengths below 240 nm using frequency quadrupling, a neodymium-doped fiber laser (NDF) operated on the 4F3/2 - 4I9/2 three-level transition is particularly adapted with effective tunable emission in the IR spectral range between 875 nm and 935 nm [3]. The competition with the 4-level transition, corresponding to an emission wavelength close to 1050 nm, is however a serious drawback because the gain at 1050 nm in a NDF amplifier is considerably higher than the gain at 900 nm. To reduce the gain difference between the two transitions, we have developed Nd-doped large mode area (LMA) PM fibers with a small clad-to-core diameter ratio (~ 4) and a very low core numerical aperture. As for example, a record output power of 83 W at 910 nm was achieved using a NDF LMA fiber with a 30/125 geometry and NA of 0.05 [4].
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