The present invention discloses an eccentric
rare earth doped
optical fiber and its application, an
optical fiber laser, and an
optical fiber amplifier. The glass part of the optical
fiber includes a
rare earth doped core with a decreasing
refractive index from the inside to the outside, and an eccentric inner cladding; the outer contour of the cross section of the core is a rectangle or a regular polygon; the outer contour of the cross section of the eccentric inner cladding is a circle, and its center coincides with the geometric center of the cross section of the eccentric
rare earth doped optical
fiber; there is a distance D between the geometric center of the cross section outer contour of the core and the center of the outer contour of the eccentric inner cladding, and D>0. The eccentric rare earth doped optical
fiber provided by the present invention adopts a rectangular or regular polygonal core, which, on the one hand, improves the
absorption efficiency of the core, and on the other hand, reduces the
energy loss of the cladding
evanescent wave overflow, thereby comprehensively improving the pumping efficiency. The present invention is used as an optical
gain medium for lasers and
optical fiber amplifiers, and has the advantages of device
miniaturization,
high absorption efficiency, and low fusion loss.