Highly birefringent microstructured neodymium doped fiber

Author

Sojka, L. ; Pajewski, Lara ; Pilszak, M. ; Mergo, Pawel ; Furniss, D. ; Seddon, A. ; Benson, T.M. ; Sujecki, S. ; Beres-Pawlik, E.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Telecommun., Teleinformatics & Acoust., Wroclaw Univ. of Technol., Wroclaw, Poland

fYear

2012

fDate

2-5 July 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

In this paper we present a novel, highly birefringent, microstructured optical fiber structure doped with neodymium. To our best knowledge it is the first report of a rare earth doped fiber with so high birefringence. The modal properties of the structure were analyzed using the full vectorial finite difference method. The emission spectra were also measured. Laser action in the simplest configuration, based on Fresnel light reflection at both ends of the fiber, was demonstrated.

Keywords

finite difference methods; neodymium; optical fibre networks; Fresnel light reflection; Nd; emission spectra; full vectorial finite difference method; highly birefringent microstructured neodymium doped fiber; microstructured optical fiber structure; modal properties; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Measurement by laser beam; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fiber sensors; high birefringent fiber laser; microstructured optical fiber;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2012 14th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Coventry

ISSN

2161-2056

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2228-7

Electronic_ISBN

2161-2056

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2012.6253817

Filename

6253817