Abstract
In this Letter, we demonstrate a high-power Raman fiber amplifier with excellent beam quality based on graded-index fiber. The Yb-doped fiber laser (YDFL) and bandwidth-tunable amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) source are employed as the pump source to compare the laser performance separately. When the ASE with a bandwidth of 8 nm is employed, a maximum power of 943 W at 1130 nm is achieved, which is twice that pumped by YDFL. The beam quality factor ${{\rm{M}}^2}$ at maximum output power is 1.6, with a brightness enhancement (BE) factor of 27. To the best of our knowledge, this is the best beam quality and BE factor based on pure Raman gain with output power of over 100 W.
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