Foro Energy is commercializing high power lasers for the oil, natural gas, geothermal, and mining industries. Foro energy can deliver multi-kW laser power over multi-mile distances.
In the past 15 years, high power fiber laser costs have dropped by 100X+ with modular, solid state construction for rugged field transportation. However, long distance transmission of high power lasers was believed to be impossible due to physics limitations known as Stimulated Brillouin Scattering (SBS) and other nonlinear effects.
Stimulated Brillouin Scattering (SBS) is a “physics effect” that chokes off the transmission of high power laser photons in a fiber optic cable by reflecting the energy backwards to catastrophically destroy both the fiber optic cable and laser source. In short, photons and acoustic phonons interact in a vicious cycle that gets exponentially worse with increasing power and distance.
With advanced physics simulations and experimental capabilities, Foro Energy developed a solution where the fiber optic cable, laser source, and combined system are simultaneously engineered to eliminate the onset of SBS even at high laser power levels and long distances.
Foro Energy’s proprietary technology overcomes these and other limitations to allow “world first” transmission of:
- High power, by overcoming SBS
- Over long distances, by overcoming SBS
- With low loss, through a proprietary fiber optic specification
- In downhole environments, through a proprietary cabling package
Over the past decade, advancements in fiber laser technology have increased power availability from less than 1 kW to greater than 50 kW.
Fiber laser costs have dropped from over $1,000/W to less than $50/W in just 15 years.
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