Highly polarized photonic crystal fiber laser

Fiona McNeillie, Erling Riis, Jes Broeng, Jacob Folkenberg, Anders Petersson, Harald Simonsen, Christian Jacobsen

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Abstract

We report on the design of a polarization maintaining, double-clad, Yb doped photonic crystal fiber and demonstrate its lasing properties. The polarizing properties of the fiber rely on birefringence and differential loss introduced by an anisotropic hole structure. Due to a slight leak from the core to the inner cladding only ~80% of the output light is in the core mode. We have demonstrated 2.9W of output in this mode with a polarization ratio in excess of 200:1.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)3981-3987
Number of pages6
JournalOptics Express
Volume12
Issue number17
Publication statusPublished - Aug 2004

Keywords

  • fiber design and fabrication
  • fibers
  • polarization-maintaining
  • lasers
  • laser optics

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