Generation of 9.3-W multimode and 4-W single-mode output from 7-cm short fiber lasers

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2592-2594

  Qiu, T ^a   Li, L ^a   Schulzgen A ^a   Temyanko, V L ^a   Luo, T ^b   Jiang, S ^b   Mafi, A ^a   Moloney, J V ^a   Peyghambarian, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b NP PHOTONICS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Continuous wave lasers; Erbium (Er); Optical fiber lasers; Optical glass; Ytterbium (Yb)

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; ERBIUM; MULTIMODE FIBERS; OPTICAL GLASS; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; YTTERBIUM;

MULTIMODE FIBER LASERS; SINGLE MODE FIBER LASERS;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 10244270637     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2004.836352     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. C. Spiegelberg, J. Geng, Y. Hu, Y. Kaneda, J. Wang, W. Li, M. Brutsch, S. Hocde, M. Chen, J. Babico, K. Barry, W. Eaton, M. Blake, D. Eigen, I. Song, and S. Jiang, "Compact 100 mW fiber laser with 2 kHz linewidth," in Proc. Optical Fiber Communication (OFC 2003), Atlanta, GA, 2003, Postdeadline Paper PD-45.
2. W. H. Loh, B. N. Samson, L. Dong, G. J. Cowle, and K. Hsu, "High performance single frequency fiber grating-based erbium: Ytterbium-codoped fiber lasers," J. Lightwave Technol., vol. 16, pp. 114-118, Jan. 1998.
3. Y. Jeong, J. K. Sahu, D. N. Payne, and J. Nilsson, "Ytterbium-doped large-core fiber laser with 1 kW of continuous-wave output power," Electron. Lett., vol. 40, pp. 470-472, Apr. 2004.
4. 3+ doped phosphate fiber amplifiers," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 13, pp. 197-199, Mar. 2001.
5. 3+ codoped phosphate fiber amplifiers," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 13, pp. 657-659, July 2001.
6. P. Leproux, S. Février, V. Doya, P. Roy, and D. Pagnoux, " Modeling and optimization of double-clad fiber amplifiers using chaotic propagation of the pump," Opt. Fiber Technol., vol. 6, pp. 324-339, 2001.
7. L. Li, M. Morrell, T. Qiu, V. L. Temyanko, A. Schülzgen, A. Mafi, D. Kouznetsov, J. V. Moloney, T. Luo, S. Jiang, and N. Peyghambarian, "Short cladding-pumped Er/Yb phosphate fiber laser with 1.5-W output power," Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 85, pp. 2721-2723, Sept. 2004.
8. 3+-doped phosphate glasses," J. Opt. Soc. Amer. B, vol. 17, pp. 833-839, May 2000.
9. J. Nilsson, S. Alam, J. A. Alvarez-Chavez, P. W. Turner, W. A. Clarkson, and A. B. Grudinin, "High-power and tunable operation of erbium-ytterbium co-doped cladding-pumped fiber lasers," IEEE J. Quantum Electron., vol. 39, pp. 987-994, Aug. 2003.
10. G. C. Valley, "Modeling cladding-pumped Er/Yb fiber amplifiers," Opt. Fiber Tech., vol. 7, pp. 21-44, 2001.
11. 3+ codoped fiber lasers," J. Lightwave Technol., vol. 21, pp. 2044-2052, Sept. 2003.
12. V. P. Gapontsev, S. M. Matitsin, A. A. Isneev, and V. B. Kravchenko, "Erbium glass lasers and their applications," Opt. Laser Technol. pp. 189-196, Aug. 1982.
13. E. Maurice, G. Monnom, B. Dussardier, and D. B. Ostrowsky, " Clustering effects on double energy transfer in heavily ytterbium-erbium-codoped silica fibers," J. Opt. Soc. Amer. B, vol. 13, pp. 693-701, Apr. 1996.