Abstract
Five-hundred-watt cylindrical vector beams (CVBs) at 1030 nm with the 3 dB linewidth being less than 0.25 nm have been generated from a narrow linewidth all-fiber linearly polarized laser by metasurface extracavity conversion. At maximum output power, the transmission efficiency and polarization extinction ratio of radially polarized cylindrical vector beams (RP-CVBs) are beyond 98% and 95%, respectively. The average power is approximately an order higher than previously reported high-power narrow-linewidth CVBs generated from fiber lasers. The temperature rise of the metasurface is less than 10°C at 500 W output power, which means that the system can be further power-scaled in the near future. The high-power, high-purity, and high-efficiency RP-CVBs generated by the metasurface demonstrate potential application of a metasurface in high-power CVBs lasers.
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