Abstract
The influence of the core diameter and the fiber length on the beam quality of the transmitted beam was investigated theoretically and experimentally for highly multimode step-index fibers with a numerical aperture of 0.22 using a fully monolithic setup. We show that it is possible to maintain a nearly diffraction-limited beam quality (M
$^{2}\boldsymbol{\approx }$
1.3) through 100 m long multimode fibers. For a core diameter of
$60\,\boldsymbol{\mu}$
m and a fiber length of 380 m one can still deliver a beam with an M
$^{2}$
value of 2.1. The high-power suitability of this approach was shown by transmitting 1 kW of power through a 100 m long fiber with a core diameter of
$60\,\boldsymbol{\mu}$
m without the onset of stimulated Raman scattering while maintaining a nearly diffraction-limited beam quality (M
$^{2} \boldsymbol{\approx }$
1.3).
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