Fiber laser apparatus and method of detecting failure of fiber laser apparatus

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PATENT NO 9985407
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15240442

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To provide a fiber laser apparatus capable of detecting a failure of an optical fiber within a wide range of the apparatus with an inexpensive configuration. The fiber laser apparatus 100 has a plurality of fiber laser units 110, a combiner 120 operable to optically combine output laser beams outputted from the fiber laser unit 110 to generate a combined laser beam, a laser emission portion 130 operable to emit the combined laser beam, output laser beam power detection parts 170 operable to detect a power of an output laser beam of each of the fiber laser units 110, a combined laser beam power detection part 140 operable to detect a power of the combined laser beam, and a failure detection part 160 operable to compare the total of detected powers of the output laser beams (total laser beam power) with the detected power of the combined laser beam and determine that a failure has occurred in the fiber laser unit 110 when a ratio of the power of the combined laser beam to the total laser beam power becomes lower than a predetermined threshold T.

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FUJIKURA LTDTOKYO JAPAN TOKYO METROPOLIS

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Matsuoka, Yuji Sakura, JP 19 160

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