Single-frequency fiber oscillator with watt-level output power using photonic crystal phosphate glass fiber

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 16, 2006, Pages 7087-7092

  Schulzgen A ^a   Li, L ^a   Temyanko, V L ^a   Suzuki, S ^a   Moloney, J V ^a   Peyghambarian, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALS; GLASS FIBERS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); PHOTONS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

FIBER OSCILLATOR; PHOSPHATE GLASS FIBER; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL; SINGLE-FREQUENCY LIGHT BEAM;

FIBER OPTIC COMPONENTS;

GLASS; GLASS FIBER;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIODE LASER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; GLASS; LASERS, SEMICONDUCTOR; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 33746891463     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.007087     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. 3+-doped fibre laser," Electron. Lett. 24, 24-26 (1988).
2. G. A. Ball, W. W. Morey, and W. H. Glenn, "Standing-wave monomode erbium fiber laser," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. 3, 613-615 (1991).
3. K. Iwatsuki, H. Okamura, and M. Saruwatari, "Wavelength-tunable single-frequency and single-polarisation Er-doped fibre ring-laser with 1.4 kHz linewidth," Electron. Lett. 26, 2033-2035 (1990).
4. T. J. Kane and R. L. Byer, "Monolithic, unidirectional, single-mode Nd:YAG ring laser," Opt. Lett. 10, 65-67 (1985).
5. 3+-doped fibre laser," Electron. Lett. 31, 1445-1446 (1995).
6. Ch. Spiegelberg, J. Geng, Y. Hu, Y. Kaneda, S. Jiang, and N. Peyghambarian, "Low-noise narrow-linewidth fiber laser at 1550 nm," J. Lightwave Technol. 22, 57-62 (2004).
7. T. Qiu, A. Schülzgen, L. Li, A. Polynkin, V. L. Temyanko, J. V. Moloney, and N. Peyghambarian, "Generation of watt-level single longitudinal mode output from cladding pumped short fiber lasers," Opt. Lett. 30, 2748-2750 (2005).
8. P. Polynkin, A. Polynkin, M. Mansuripur, J. Moloney, and N. Peyghamabrian, "Single-frequency laser oscillator with watts-level output power at 1.5 μm by use of a twisted-mode technique," Opt. Lett. 30, 2745-2747 (2005).
9. P. St. J. Russell, "Photonic crystal fibers," Science 299, 358-362 (2003).
10. J. Limpert, A. Liem, M. Reich, T. Schreiber, S. Nolte, H. Zellmer, A. Tünnermann, J. Broeng, A. Petersson, and C. Jakobsen, "Low- nonlinearity single-transverse-mode ytterbium-doped photonic crystal fiber amplifier," Opt. Express 12, 1313-1319 (2004).
11. L. Li, A. Schülzgen, V. L. Temyanko, T. Qiu, M. M. Morrell, Q. Wang, A. Mafi, J. V. Moloney, and N. Peyghambarian, "Short-length microstructured phosphate glass fiber lasers with large mode areas," Opt. Lett. 30, 1141-1143 (2005).
12. L. Li, A. Schülzgen, V. L. Temyanko, S. Sabet, M. M. Morrell, H. Li, A. Mafi, J. V. Moloney, and N. Peyghambarian, "Investigation of modal properties of microstructured optical fibers with large depressed-index cores," Opt. Lett. 30, 3275 (2005).
13. J. K. Sahu, C. C. Renaud, K. Furusawa, R Selvas, J. A. Alvarez-Chavez, D. J. Richardson, and J. Nilsson, "Jacketed air clad cladding pumped ytterbium doped fibre laser with wide tuning range," Electron. Lett. 38, 1116-1117 (2001).
14. W. J. Wadsworth, J. C. Knight, and P. St. J. Russell, "Large mode area photonic crystal fibre laser," in OSA Trends in Optics and Photonics 56, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, Technical Digest, Postconference Edition (Optical Society of America, Washington DC, 2001), pp. 319.
15. K. Furusawa, A. Malinowski, J. Price, T. Monro, J. Sahu, J. Nilsson, and D. Richardson, "Cladding pumped Ytterbium-doped fiber laser with holey inner and outer cladding," Opt. Express 9, 714-720 (2001).