Engineered refractive index profiles for high power fiber lasers

Author

Walton, Donnell ; Gray, Stuart ; Wang, Ji ; Li, Ming-Jun ; Chen, Xin ; Ruffin, A. Boh ; Zenteno, Luis

Author_Institution

S&T Div., Corning Inc., Corning, NY

fYear

2006

fDate

21-26 May 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We demonstrate engineered refractive index profiles for the mitigation of nonlinear optical impairments such as stimulated Raman scattering and stimulated Brillouin scattering. These fibers offer performance improvements over conventionally used large mode area fibers.

Keywords

Raman spectra; nonlinear optics; optical fibre amplifiers; refractive index; stimulated Brillouin scattering; fiber optics amplifiers; fiber optics oscillators; high power fiber lasers; nonlinear optical impairments; refractive index profiles; stimulated Brillouin scattering; stimulated Raman scattering; Fiber nonlinear optics; High power fiber lasers; Nonlinear optics; Optical refraction; Optical scattering; Optical variables control; Power engineering and energy; Raman scattering; Refractive index; Stimulated emission; (060.2320) Fiber optics amplifiers and oscillators; (140.3280) Laser amplifiers; (190.5890) Scattering, stimulated;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on

Conference_Location

Long Beach, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2006.4627924

Filename

4627924