The invention discloses a pumping ring structure-based active
optical fiber with high pumping conversion efficiency and an
amplifier structure, and relates to the field of active optical fibers and
optical fiber amplifiers, the pumping ring structure-based active
optical fiber comprises a
layered structure which is sequentially arranged from inside to outside, and the
layered structure comprises a
fiber core, a pumping ring structure, a
quartz cladding and a
coating layer, the optical
fiber is located at the geometric center of the active
fiber; the pumping ring structure is arranged around the fiber core and is used for guiding and converging pumping light to gather towards a fiber core area, the pumping ring structure is composed of one or more
layers of concentric annular modulation areas, and the refractive indexes of all the
layers of modulation areas are gradually increased layer by layer from outside to inside in the radial direction; according to the active optical fiber and
amplifier structure, one or more
layers of concentric pumping rings with refractive indexes gradually increased layer by layer from outside to inside are arranged in the cladding, and the concentration degree and
energy density of pumping light towards a fiber core area can be remarkably improved to a certain extent by utilizing the guiding effect of
refractive index gradients on a pumping
light propagation path; therefore, higher pumping
absorption efficiency and
gain performance are realized.