Title :
Power scaling of fibre lasers with all-fibre interferometric cavity
Author :
Sabourdy, D. ; Kerméne, Y. ; Desfarges-Berthelemot, A. ; Lefort, L. ; Barthélémy, A. ; Mahodaux, C. ; Pureur, D.
Author_Institution :
IRCOM, CNRS, Limoges, France
fDate :
7/4/2002 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Two interferometric laser cavities are proposed for efficient combining of two fibre lasers. A 3 dB gain in power by coherent coupling of two identical erbium-doped fibre lasers is demonstrated. Scaling in power is envisaged through cascading of a coherent combination of elementary lasers
Keywords :
Mach-Zehnder interferometers; Michelson interferometers; erbium; fibre lasers; laser cavity resonators; Er-doped fibre lasers; all-fibre interferometric cavity; coherent coupling; efficient coherent combining; interferometric laser cavities; laser cascading; power scaling;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:20020505
