Title :
Improvement of the emission characteristics of a multicore fiber laser using self reproduction in a multimode interference device (MMI)
Author :
Glas, P. ; Fischer, D. ; Leitner, M. ; Sandrock, T. ; Wrage, M. ; Pertsch, Th. ; Napartovich, A.P. ; Elkin, N.N. ; Sukharev, A.G. ; Troshchieva, V.N. ; Vysotsky, D.V.
Author_Institution :
Max-Born-Inst., Berlin, Germany
Abstract :
Summary form only. The development of high power diode-pumped fiber lasers for cw or pulsed applications requires a good transfer of pump-to-fiber laser radiation, a high slope efficiency and management of thermal problems. For high power solitary femtosecond fiber lasers the chirp parameter should be small combined with a proper value of the group velocity dispersion. To have decided to use a multitude of doped monomode fibers (61) confined within a common pump core of large diameter (multicore fiber). We show that using a multimode interference device (MMI) being made up of a step index multimode fiber coupled to the multicore fiber the uncorrelated emission may be influenced via field reconstruction.
Keywords :
fibre lasers; optical fibre couplers; optical pumping; chirp parameter; common pump core; cw lasers; doped monomode fibers; emission characteristics; field reconstruction; group velocity dispersion; high power diode-pumped fiber lasers; high power solitary femtosecond fiber lasers; high slope efficiency; multicore fiber; multicore fiber laser; multimode interference device; pulsed lasers; pump-to-fiber laser radiation; self reproduction; step index multimode fiber coupler; thermal problems; uncorrelated emission; Diodes; Energy management; Fiber lasers; Laser excitation; Multicore processing; Optical fiber devices; Optical pulses; Power lasers; Pump lasers; Thermal management;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe, 2000. Conference Digest. 2000 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Nice
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6319-1
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOE.2000.909989