Optimization of higher order mode fibers for dispersion management of femtosecond fiber lasers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6873, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Grüner Nielsen, Lars ^a   Ramachandran, Siddharth ^b   Jespersen, Kim ^a   Ghalmi, Samir ^b   Garmund, Martin ^a   Pálsdóttir, Bera ^a  

^a OFS   (Denmark)

^b OFS LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Dispersion management; Femtosecond laser; Fiber design; Fiber laser; Fiber measurement; Higher order mode fiber; Long period grating; Mode converter

Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE APPLICATIONS; BOLTZMANN EQUATION; COMPUTER NETWORKS; DISPERSION (WAVES); FIBER OPTICS; FIBERS; ION BEAMS; LASERS; MICROFLUIDICS; OPTIMIZATION; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; TECHNOLOGY;

(+ MOD 2N) OPERATION; (060.2410) FIBERS; (140.3500) LASERS; (OTDR) TECHNOLOGY; 1060 NM; ALL FIBER; ANOMALOUS DISPERSIONS; BULK LASERS; DISPERSION COEFFICIENTS; DISPERSION-MANAGEMENT; FEMTOSECOND FIBER LASERS; FIBER DEVICES; HIGH DISPERSION; HIGHER-ORDER MODES; LARGE EFFECTIVE AREA (LEAF); LONG LIFETIME; LONG PERIOD GRATINGS (LPGS); LOW COSTS; LOW LOSSES; MEASURED PROPERTIES; MODE CONVERTERS; NORMAL DISPERSION; PASSIVE FIBERS; PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SMALL SIZE; STABLE OPERATIONS; THIRD ORDER DISPERSION (TOD); WAVELENGTH RANGES;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 44949151588     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.774964     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (12)

1. H. Lim, F. Ö. Ilday, and F. W. Wise; Femtosecond ytterbium fiber laser with photonic crystal fiber for dispersion control ; Optics Express, Vol. 10, no. 25, pp. 1497; 2002
2. H. Lim and F.W. Wise; Control of dispersion in a femtosecond ytterbium laser by use of hollow-core photonic bandgap fiber; Optics Express, Vol. 12, No. 10, pp. 2231; 2004
3. C. K. Nielsen, K. G. Jespersen, and S. R. Keiding; A 158 fs 5.3 nJ fiber-laser system at 1 urn using photinc bandgap fibers for cispersion control and pulse compression; Optics Express, Vol. 14, No. 13, pp. 6063; 2006
4. S. Ramachandran, S. Ghalmi, J. W. Nicholson, M. F. Yan, P. Wisk, E. Monberg, and F. V- Dimarcello; Anomalous dispersion in a solid, silica-based fiber; Optics Letters, vol. 31, No. 17, pp 2532; 2006
5. M. Schultz, O. Prochnow, A. Ruehl, D. Wandt, Dietmar Kracht, S. Ramachandran, and S. Ghalmi; Sub-60-fs ytterbium-doped fiber laser with a fiber-based dispersion compensation; Optics Letters, Vol. 32, No. 16, pp 2372; 2007
6. L. Grüner-Nielsen, M. Wandel, P. Kristensen, C. Jørgensen, L. V. Jørgensen, B. Edvold, B. Pálsdóttir and D. Jakobsen; Dispersion Compensating Fibers; Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 23, No. 11, pp. 3566; 2005
7. S. Ramachandran, Z. Wang, and M. Yan; Bandwidth control of long-period grating-based mode converters in few-mode fibers; Optics Letters, Vol. 27, No. 9, pp. 698; 2002
8. K. Hotate and T. Okoshi; Measurement of refractive-index profile and transmission characteristics of a single-mode optical fiber from its exit-radiation pattern; Applied Optics; Vol. 18, No. 19, pp. 3265-3271; 1979
9. TIA/EIA-455-132 (Fiberoptics Test Procedure FOTP-132); Measurement of the effective area of single-mode optical fiber; Telecommunications Industry Association, 2001
10. S. Ramachandran, Member, J. W. Nicholson, S. Ghalmi, and M. F. Yan; Measurement of Multipath Interference in the Coherent Crosstalk Regime; Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 15, No. 8, pp. 1171; 2003
11. S. Ramachandran, S. Ghalmi, J.W. Nicholson, M.F. Yan, P. Wisk, E. Monberg, and F.V. Dimarcello; Demonstration of Anomalous Dispersion in a Solid, Silica-based Fiber at λ < 1300 nm; Proceedings of OFC'06, paper PDP3; 2006
12. J. W. Nicholson, S. Ramachandran, and S. Ghalmi; A passively-modelocked, Yb-doped, figure-eight, fiber laser utilizing anomalous-dispersion higher-order-mode fiber; Optics Express, Vol. 15, No. 11, pp 6623; 2007