Phase-locked antiguided multiple-core ribbon fiber |
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Authors: | R.J. Beach M.D. Feit S.C. Mitchell K.P. Cutter S.A. Payne R.W. Mead J.S. Hayden D. Krashkevich D.A. Alunni |
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Affiliation: | Lawrence Livermore Nat. Lab., CA, USA; |
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Abstract: | We report on the first experimental demonstration of a scalable fiber laser approach based on phase-locking multiple gain cores in an antiguided structure. A novel fabrication technology is used with soft glass components to construct the multiple core fiber used in our experiments. The waveguide region is rectangular in shape and comprised of a periodic sequence of gain and no-gain segments having nearly uniform refractive index. The rectangular waveguide is itself embedded in a lower refractive index cladding region. Experimental results confirm that our five-core Nd-doped glass prototype structure runs predominately in two spatial antiguided modes as predicted by our modeling. |
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