Gratings and fibers for high-power fiber lasers and amplifiers

Corey Paye; Jon Greene; Chris Rose

doi:10.1117/12.484166

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3 July 2003 Gratings and fibers for high-power fiber lasers and amplifiers

Corey Paye, Jon Greene, Chris Rose

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Proceedings Volume 4974, Advances in Fiber Lasers; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.484166
Event: High-Power Lasers and Applications, 2003, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

Ytterbium (Tb) doped double-cladding fiber (DCF) lasers and amplifiers are being developed for a number of industrial and military applications. There are several key factors for maximizing the output power of these devices. Lambda Istruments is concentrating on two areas: component development and optical fiber development. The component development effort has focused on grating devices and pump couplers. Stable, highly reflective short-period fiber Bragg gratings are produced in DCF rapidly, have low insertion loss and can be customized for many different laser/amplifier applications. Long-period gratings are also being developed for possible novel use in fiber laser and amplifier applications. A proprietary fiber coupler under development is currently capable of an 85% coupling efficiency. The second focus for Lambda is the development of polarization maintaining Yb-doped DCF. Recent efforts have shifted towards making large mode area versions of these fibers to reduce nonlinear effects at high powers.

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Corey Paye, Jon Greene, and Chris Rose "Gratings and fibers for high-power fiber lasers and amplifiers", Proc. SPIE 4974, Advances in Fiber Lasers, (3 July 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.484166

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