Title :
All-solid photonic bandgap fiber with record mode area
Author :
Fanting Kong ; Saitoh, Kunimasa ; Mcclane, D. ; Hawkins, Thomas ; Foy, P. ; Guancheng Gu ; Liang Dong
Author_Institution :
Center for Opt. Mater. Sci. & Technol., Clemson Univ., Anderson, SC, USA
Abstract :
We experimentally demonstrated all-solid photonic bandgap fibers with ~50μm core diameters and excellent higher order mode suppression, which can be used for high power fiber lasers to overcome the limits of fiber nonlinearities.
Keywords :
fibre lasers; holey fibres; optical fibre cladding; photonic band gap; all-solid photonic bandgap fiber; fiber nonlinearities; high power fiber lasers; higher order mode suppression; optical fibre cladding; record mode area; size 50 mum; Coils; Fiber lasers; Loss measurement; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber polarization; Photonic band gap; Photonic bandgap fibers;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC), 2013
Conference_Location :
Anaheim, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-0457-0
