Polarizing ytterbium-doped all-solid photonic bandgap fiber with ~1150µm^2 effective mode area
Open Access
- 11 February 2015
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Express
- Vol. 23 (4) , 4307-4312
Abstract
We demonstrate an Yb-doped polarizing all-solid photonic bandgap fiber for single-polarization and single-mode operation with an effective mode area of ~1150µm2, a record for all-solid photonic bandgap fibers. The differential polarization mode loss is measured to be >5dB/m over the entire transmission band with a 160nm bandwidth and >15dB/m on the short wavelength edge of the band. A 2.6m long fiber was tested in a laser configuration producing a linearly polarized laser output with a PER value of 21dB without any polarizer, the highest for any fiber lasers based on polarizing fibers.Keywords
Funding Information
- U. S. Army Research Laboratory (W911NF-10-1-0423)
- U. S. Army Research Office (W911NF-10-1-0423)
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