High power cladding light strippers

Alexandre Wetter; Mathieu Faucher; Benoit Sévigny

doi:10.1117/12.763003

25 February 2008 High power cladding light strippers

Alexandre Wetter, Mathieu Faucher, Benoit Sévigny

Proceedings Volume 6873, Fiber Lasers V: Technology, Systems, and Applications; 687327 (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.763003
Event: Lasers and Applications in Science and Engineering, 2008, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

The ability to strip cladding light from double clad fiber (DCF) fibers is required for many different reasons, one example is to strip unwanted cladding light in fiber lasers and amplifiers. When removing residual pump light for example, this light is characterized by a large numerical aperture distribution and can reach power levels into the hundreds of watts. By locally changing the numerical aperture (N.A.) of the light to be stripped, it is possible to achieve significant attenuation even for the low N.A. rays such as escaped core modes in the same device. In order to test the power-handling capability of this device, one hundred watts of pump and signal light is launched from a tapered fusedbundle (TFB) 6+1x1 combiner into a high power-cladding stripper. In this case, the fiber used in the cladding stripper and the output fiber of the TFB was a 20/400 0.06/0.46 N.A. double clad fiber. Attenuation of over 20dB in the cladding was measured without signal loss. By spreading out the heat load generated by the unwanted light that is stripped, the package remained safely below the maximum operating temperature internally and externally. This is achieved by uniformly stripping the energy along the length of the fiber within the stripper. Different adhesive and heat sinking techniques are used to achieve this uniform removal of the light. This suggests that these cladding strippers can be used to strip hundreds of watts of light in high power fiber lasers and amplifiers.

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Alexandre Wetter, Mathieu Faucher, and Benoit Sévigny "High power cladding light strippers", Proc. SPIE 6873, Fiber Lasers V: Technology, Systems, and Applications, 687327 (25 February 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.763003

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