Title :
Jacketed air-clad cladding pumped ytterbium-doped fibre laser with wide tuning range
Author :
Sahu, J.K. ; Renaud, C.C. ; Furusawa, K. ; Selvas, R. ; Alvarez-Chavez, J.A. ; Richardson, D.J. ; Nilsson, J.
Author_Institution :
Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Southampton Univ., UK
fDate :
8/30/2001 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A tunable cladding-pumped ytterbium-doped fibre laser is presented. An air-clad inner cladding supported by a micro-structured silica mesh inside a silica jacket is used. A measured inner-cladding NA of 0.4 to 0.5 enables efficient pump launch into a 36 μm-diameter inner cladding. The small inner cladding area enables tuning from 1010 to 1120 nm
Keywords :
fibre lasers; laser tuning; optical fibre cladding; optical pumping; ytterbium; 1010 to 1120 nm; air-clad inner cladding; cladding pumped ytterbium-doped fibre laser; microstructured silica mesh; silica jacket; tuning range;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:20010753
