Autor: |
Huimin Zheng, Antoine Proulx, Pierre Laperle, Claude Paré, Mathieu Drolet, Yves Taillon |
Rok vydání: |
2010 |
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Zdroj: |
SPIE Proceedings. |
ISSN: |
0277-786X |
DOI: |
10.1117/12.842583 |
Popis: |
Based on a depressed-clad index profile design, a PM Yb-doped large mode area (LMA) fiber with an effective mode area of 450 μm 2 was designed and fabricated. The fiber was used to amplify 10-ns pulses at 1064 nm with a repetition rate of 100 kHz, and an output energy higher than 200 μJ was obtained, within a bandwidth of 0.5 nm. The fiber was coiled on a 12-cm diameter mandrel to obtain a single-mode output having a measured M 2 value of 1.04. The output polarization extinction ratio was higher than 20 dB. The photodarkening excess loss of the Ytterbium//Phosphorus Aluminum co-doped fiber was measured to be a factor 5 lower than that of a reference Ytterbium/Aluminum co-doped fiber. It is shown how a depressed-clad index profile design can improve higher-order mode filtering while keeping the coiling diameter practical for compact fiber amplifier packaging. |
Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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