266 results about "Fiber disk laser" patented technology

An optically active fiber (30) is disclosed for making a fiber laser (18) or an amplifier (16). This double-clad structured active fiber (30) has a core (34), doped with an optically excitable ion having a three-level transition. The core (34) has a core refractive index and a core cross-sectional area. An inner cladding (32) surrounds the core (34). The inner cladding (32) has an inner cladding refractive index less than the core refractive index, an inner cladding cross-sectional area between 2 and 25 times greater than that of the core cross-sectional area, and an aspect ratio greater than 1.5:1. An outer cladding (36) surrounds the inner cladding (32) and has an outer cladding refractive index less than the inner cladding refractive index.

A large core photonic crystal fiber for transmitting radiation having a core comprising a substantially transparent core material and having a core diameter of at least 5mu. The fiber also comprises a cladding region surrounding the length of core material, wherein the cladding region comprises a first substantially transparent cladding material, having a first refractive index, and wherein the first substantially transparent cladding material has embedded along its length a substantially periodic array of holes, wherein the holes are filled with a second cladding material having a second refractive index less than the first refractive index, such that radiation input to the optical fiber is transmitted along the length of the core material in a single mode of propagation. In a preferred embodiment, the core diameter may be at least 20mu, and may be as large as 50mu. The fiber is capable of transmitting higher power radiation than conventional fibers, whilst maintaining propagation in a single mode. The core material may be doped with a material capable of providing amplification under the action of pump radiation input to the fiber. The invention also relates to a fiber amplifier and a fiber laser comprising a doped large core photonic crystal fiber. The fibre may also be used in a system for transmitting radiation comprising a plurality of lengths of large core photonic crystal fiber, separated by large core photonic crystal fiber amplifiers, such that the power of radiation transmitted through the system is maintained above a predetermined threshold power.

An all-fiber device platform for producing high-power ROGB or RGB laser output comprises an optical fiber including multiple waveguide gain regions embedded within a common inner cladding and within an outer cladding, an optical cavity defined by dielectric reflectors and / or FBG mirrors, and a pump source for exciting one or more active ionic species by one or multiple pump wavelengths from one or both ends of the optical fiber through upconversion process. An apparatus for producing sequential or simultaneous multiple wavelength laser operation provides for applications of color projection displays and biomedical or other instrumentation.

This invention provides a fiber gas laser and a fiber ring laser gyro with said laser, in which, the fiber gas laser includes exciting gas, optical resonance cavity and an exciting source characterizing that said cavity is composed of hollow fiber and a single-mode fiber coupler, two arms of the coupler are solid fibers and connected with two ends of the hollow fiber separately, and exciting gas as gain medium is filled in the core of the hollow fiber.

Optical pump modules comprising VCSEL and VCSEL array devices provide high optical power for configuring fiber optic gain systems such as fiber laser and fiber amplifier particularly suited for high power operation. Pump modules may be constructed using two reflector or three reflector VCSEL devices optionally integrated with microlens arrays and other optical components, to couple high power pump beams to a fiber output port. The pump module having a fiber output port is particularly suited to couple light to an inner cladding of a double-clad fiber, often used to configure high power fiber laser and fiber amplifier. The pump modules may be operated in CW, QCW and pulse modes to configure fiber lasers and amplifiers using single end, dual end, and regenerative optical pumping modes. Multiple-pumps may be combined to increase pump power in a modular fashion without significant distortion to signal, particularly for short pulse operation.

A passively mode-locked, figure-eight laser is formed of all normal dispersion fiber, eliminating the need for using anomalous dispersion fiber. The fiber is selected to be polarization maintaining, with the remaining components of the laser (couplers, isolator, gain fiber) also formed as polarization maintaining elements. In one embodiment, a section of Yb-doped fiber is used as the gain element. An external modulation component (amplitude or phase) is preferably used to initiate the passive mode locking.