DocumentCode
788076
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
Volume
38
Issue
14
fYear
2002
fDate
7/4/2002 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
692
Lastpage
693
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;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Electronics Letters
Publisher
iet
ISSN
0013-5194
Type
jour
DOI
10.1049/el:20020505
Filename
1019814
Link To Document