摘要:
Disclosed are multi-stage optical amplifiers that propagate higher-order mode (HOM) signals. One embodiment, among others, comprises a first segment of optical fiber in which a first HOM signal propagates, a second segment of optical fiber in which a second HOM signal propagates, and a mode converter that converts the first HOM signal into the second HOM signal.
摘要:
In an optical fiber device having a configuration in which an optical fiber is joined to a side surface of another optical fiber, a joint portion is suppressed from reaching a high temperature. The optical fiber device includes a first fluoride fiber (3), a second fluoride fiber (4), and a heat dissipation member (6). The first fluoride fiber (3) guides light. The second fluoride fiber (4) has a first end on or from which light is incident or output and a second end at which an end surface of the second fluoride fiber is obliquely joined to a side surface of the first fluoride fiber (3). The heat dissipation member (6) is disposed so as to cover the entire circumference of a joint portion of the first fluoride fiber (3) and the second fluoride fiber (4), and has a thermal conductivity equal to or greater than that of the first and second fibers (3, 4) and a property of transmitting light guided by the fibers.
摘要:
The present disclosure relates to a fiber encapsulation mechanism for energy dissipation in a fiber amplifying system. One example embodiment includes an optical fiber amplifier. The optical fiber amplifier includes an optical fiber that includes a gain medium, as well as a polymer layer that at least partially surrounds the optical fiber. The polymer layer is optically transparent. In addition, the optical fiber amplifier includes a pump source. Optical pumping by the pump source amplifies optical signals in the optical fiber and generates excess heat and excess photons. The optical fiber amplifier additionally includes a heatsink layer disposed adjacent to the polymer layer. The heatsink layer conducts the excess heat away from the optical fiber. Further, the optical fiber amplifier includes an optically transparent layer disposed adjacent to the polymer layer. The optically transparent layer transmits the excess photons away from the optical fiber.
摘要:
A semiconductor laser device includes: a semiconductor laser array in which a plurality of active layers that emit laser lights with a divergence angle θ S (>4°) in a slow axis direction are arranged in the slow axis direction; a first optical element that reflects first partial lights advancing to one side in the slow axis direction by a first reflecting surface and returns the first partial lights to the active layers; and a second optical element that reflects partial mode lights of a plurality of mode beams of second partial lights advancing to the other side in the slow axis direction by a second reflecting surface and returns the partial mode lights to the active layers, the first optical element is disposed such that the first reflecting surface forms an angle equal to or greater than 2° and less than (θ S /2) with a plane perpendicular to an optical axis direction of the active layers, and the second optical element is disposed such that the second reflecting surface forms an angle greater than (-θ S /2) and equal to or less than -2° with the plane perpendicular to the optical axis direction of the active layers.
摘要:
A method for preventing spatial or spectral beam seeding in a Q- switched laser is described. The Q-switch trigger of the laser is delayed by several laser resonator lifetimes after the end of the pump pulse. In this way, beam seeding is completely eliminated whilst pre-lase is maintained. The method described may be used for any laser system where the fall time of the pump radiation is sufficiently fast with respect to the upper state lifetime of the laser medium.
摘要:
An optical fiber 10 propagates a light beam at a predetermined wavelength at least in an LP01 mode and an LP02 mode. In regions 11a and 11c in which the intensity of a light beam in the LP02 mode is greater than the intensity of a light beam in the LP01 mode, at least a part of a Young's modulus in the region 11c on the circumferential side of the region 11b in the core in which the intensity of the light beam in the LP01 mode is greater than the intensity of the light beam in the LP02 mode is smaller than a Young's modulus in the region 11b in which the intensity of the light beam in the LP01 mode is greater than the intensity of the light beam in the LP02 mode.
摘要:
Disclosed are multi-stage optical amplifiers that propagate higher-order mode (HOM) signals. One embodiment, among others, comprises a first segment of optical fiber in which a first HOM signal propagates, a second segment of optical fiber in which a second HOM signal propagates, and a mode converter that converts the first HOM signal into the second HOM signal.