Polarizing Ytterbium-Doped all-Solid Photonic Bandgap Fiber with ~1150 micrometers2 Effective Mode Area

Abstract

We demonstrate an Yb-doped polarizing all-solid photonic bandgap fiber for single-polarization and single-mode operation with an effective mode area of ~1150m2, a record for all-solid photonic bandgap fibers. The differential polarization mode loss is measured to be >5dB/m over the entire transmission band with a 160nm bandwidth and >15dB/m on the short wavelength edge of the band. A 2.6m long fiber was tested in a laser configuration producing a linearly polarized laser output with a PER value of 21dB without any polarizer, the highest for any fiber lasers based on polarizing fibers.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 11, 2015
Accession Number
AD1007784

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People

  • Benjamin Pulford
  • Christopher M. Dunn
  • Eric Cheung
  • Fanting Kong
  • Guancheng Gu
  • Iyad Dajani
  • Joshua Parsons
  • Kunimasa Saitoh
  • Liang Dong
  • Maxwell Jones
  • Monica T. Kalichevsky-dong
  • Stephen P. Palese
  • Thomas W. Hawkins

Organizations

  • Clemson University

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Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Amplifiers
  • Bandwidth
  • Fibers
  • Guidance
  • Laser Beams
  • Lasers
  • Light Sources
  • Long Wavelengths
  • Measurement
  • Military Research
  • Optical Fiber Lasers
  • Optical Fibers
  • Optics
  • Photonic Crystals
  • Polarization
  • Polarizers
  • Short Wavelengths

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Optical Physics and Photonics.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy