Title :
Large-pitch fibers: Pushing very large mode areas to highest powers
Author_Institution :
Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich-Schiller-Univ. Jena, Jena, Germany
Abstract :
A scalable fiber design for ytterbium-doped high performance fiber lasers and amplifiers will be presented. The working principle of large-pitch fibers (LPF) bases on delocalization of higher-order transverse modes, ensuring mode-size-scalable effectively single-mode emission.
Keywords :
laser modes; optical design techniques; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre fabrication; ytterbium; LPF; delocalization; higher-order transverse modes; large mode areas; large-pitch fibers; scalable fiber design; scalable mode-size; single-mode emission; ytterbium-doped high performance fiber amplifiers; ytterbium-doped high performance fiber lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Fiber Optics and Photonics (PHOTONICS), 2012 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Chennai
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-4718-1
