Abstract
We report on a detailed study on 980 nm emission in Yb fiber lasers highlighting the appropriateness of a short-length large-mode-area photonic crystal fiber as gain medium. An experimental realization resulted in 94W output power in a close to diffraction limited beam.
© 2009 Optical Society of America
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