Laser Sources - 2

[TILA-LIC7-03] Fiber beam delivery system for ns high-energy pulses

*Dmitry Tabakaev¹, Barbara Nicoly Menezes de Oliveira¹, Tibor Bereczki¹, Gerhard Kroupa¹ (1. Photonics systems, Silicon Austria Labs)

We experimentally demonstrated that thick cladding multimode optical fibers allow for almost 100% energy coupling efficiency, the highest damage threshold up to 16 mJ at 2 ns pulses even when bent to 150 mm radius.