High gain ytterbium doped Ge pedestal large pitch fiber

Christian Gaida; Fabian Stutzki; Florian Jansen; Hans-Jürgen Otto; Tino Eidam; Cesar Jauregui; Jens Limpert; Andreas Tünnermann

doi:10.1117/12.2039804

12 March 2014 High gain ytterbium doped Ge pedestal large pitch fiber

Christian Gaida, Fabian Stutzki, Florian Jansen, Hans-Jürgen Otto, Tino Eidam, Cesar Jauregui, Jens Limpert, Andreas Tünnermann

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Proceedings Volume 8961, Fiber Lasers XI: Technology, Systems, and Applications; 89611K (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2039804
Event: SPIE LASE, 2014, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Large mode area rod-type fibers have enabled amplification of ultra-short pulses to mJ pulse energy and MW peak powers. For very large mode field areas, fibers have to be designed as rigid rods with typical fiber lengths of around 1 m for efficient operation. A shorter fiber length can be desirable to reduce the packaging size of commercial systems and to decrease the impact of parasitic nonlinear effects for peakpower scaling. The fiber design presented here is based on a modified large-pitch fiber with an effectively higher ytterbium concentration in the fiber core. To achieve index matching the cladding index needs to be changed. In this contribution we propose to co-dope the passive host material with germanium to match both indices and to obtain a higher Yb-concentration within the active core. Compared to standard LPF, where the core index is reduced by co-doping the core with Flourine, the ytterbium doping concentration of this novel germanium-pedestal LPF is doubled. A detailed numerical and experimental investigation shows that with short fiber lengths <40cm is feasible to achieve output powers beyond 100W with 10W seed. Significantly higher gains, of nearly 30 dB, can be achieved for fiber lengths in the order of 60cm. A similar gain can be expected in a conventional LPF with 1.20 m length. In conclusion, we demonstrate a fiber design for significantly enhanced energy storage per fiber length and improved pump absorption. This concept will notably reduce the footprint of ultra-short fiber laser systems.

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Christian Gaida, Fabian Stutzki, Florian Jansen, Hans-Jürgen Otto, Tino Eidam, Cesar Jauregui, Jens Limpert, and Andreas Tünnermann "High gain ytterbium doped Ge pedestal large pitch fiber", Proc. SPIE 8961, Fiber Lasers XI: Technology, Systems, and Applications, 89611K (12 March 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2039804

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Ytterbium

Doping

Germanium

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Fiber lasers

Laser systems engineering

Structured optical fibers

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