Open AccessPolarizing ytterbium-doped all-solid photonic bandgap fiber with ~1150µm^2 effective mode area
Author(s) -
Fanting Kong,
Guancheng Gu,
Thomas Hawkins,
Joshua Parsons,
Mervyn Jones,
Christopher Dunn,
Monica T. Kalichevsky-Dong,
Benjamin Pulford,
Iyad Dajani,
Kunimasa Saitoh,
Stephen P. Palese,
E. Cheung,
Liang Dong
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
optics express
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 271
ISSN - 1094-4087
DOI - 10.1364/oe.23.004307
Subject(s) - materials science , optics , photonic crystal fiber , fiber laser , optoelectronics , polarizer , ytterbium , polarization maintaining optical fiber , dispersion shifted fiber , wavelength , doping , fiber , birefringence , fiber optic sensor , physics , composite material
We demonstrate an Yb-doped polarizing all-solid photonic bandgap fiber for single-polarization and single-mode operation with an effective mode area of ~1150µm(2), 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.