Title :
Increased pulsed amplifier efficiency by manipulating the fiber dopant distribution
Author :
Oh, J.M. ; Headley, C. ; Andrejco, M.J. ; Yablon, A.D. ; DiGiovanni, D.J.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys., Chungnam Nat. Univ., Daejeon
Abstract :
In the pulse application, a significantly increased efficiency of high power largemode area fiber amplifiers is demonstrated by improving the overlap of the doped region with the fundamental mode of the fiber.
Keywords :
optical fibre amplifiers; fiber dopant distribution; high power largemode area fiber amplifiers; pulsed amplifier efficiency; Absorption; Distributed amplifiers; Doped fiber amplifiers; High power amplifiers; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber testing; Power amplifiers; Pulse amplifiers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; (060.0060) Fiber optics and optical communications; (060.2320) Fiber optics amplifiers and oscillators;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Long Beach, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-813-1
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-813-1
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2006.4628265
