Abstract:
An apparatus includes a multi-mode optical fiber having a selected plurality of optical propagating modes. The selected plurality may include only a proper subset of or may include all of the optical propagating modes of the multi-mode optical fiber. Each optical propagating mode of the selected plurality has a group velocity that varies over a corresponding range for light in, at least, one of the optical telecommunications C-band, the optical telecommunications L-band, and the optical telecommunications S-band. The ranges corresponding to different ones of the modes of the selected plurality are non- overlapping. The ranges of a group velocity-adjacent pair of the ranges are separated by a nonzero gap of less than about 10,000 meters per second.
Abstract:
A high power fiber laser system emitting a substantially diffraction limited beam with a Gaussian intensity profile includes a single mode ("SM") neodymium fiber pump source outputting a SM pump light; a seed laser operative to emit a SM signal light at a wavelength greater than that of the pump light; a SM DWM receiving and multiplexing the SM pump and signal lights. The disclosed system further includes a booster fiber amplifier which is confiugred with a frustoconically-shaped ytterbium ("Yb") doped core receiving the pump and signal lights and configured with a small diameter input end which supports only a SM and a large diameter output end which is capable of supporting the SM and high order modes (:HOM"). The booster further has a cladding surrounding and coextending with the core, the core being configured for having intensity profiles of respective SMs of pump and signal lights overlap one another so that an overlap integral substantially equals to one (1) along an entire length of the core. The SM of the light signal extracts substantially the entire energy from the pump mode leaving the HOMs without amplification necessary to affect a quality of the diffraction limited beam of the system in a MW peak power range and hundreds of watt average power range.
Abstract translation:发射具有高斯强度分布的基本衍射受限束的高功率光纤激光器系统包括输出SM泵浦光的单模(“SM”)钕光纤泵浦源; 种子激光器,其以大于泵浦光的波长发射SM信号光; SM DWM接收和复用SM泵和信号灯。 所公开的系统还包括一个增强光纤放大器,其与接收泵和信号灯的截头圆锥形镱(“Yb”)掺杂的核心配合,并配置有仅支持SM和大直径输出端的小直径输入端 其能够支持SM和高阶模式(:HOM“),该升压器还具有包围并与芯共同延伸的包层,所述芯被配置为具有泵和信号灯的各个SM的强度分布彼此重叠,因此 重叠积分基本上等于沿着芯的整个长度的一(1),光信号的SM从泵模式中提取基本上整个能量,留下HOM,而不需要影响衍射受限束质量的放大 该系统在MW峰值功率范围和数百瓦的平均功率范围内。
Abstract:
Fiber amplifiers and oscillators include tapered waveguides such as optical fibers that permit multimode propagation but produce amplification and oscillation in a fundamental mode. The tapered waveguides generally are provided with an active dopant such as a rare earth element that is pumped with an optical pump source such as one or more semiconductor lasers. The active waveguide taper is selected to taper from a single or few mode section to a multimode section, and seed beam in a fundamental mode is provided to a section of the waveguide taper associated with a smaller optical mode, and an amplified beam exits the waveguide taper at a section associated with a larger optical mode.
Abstract:
The present invention concerns a connection device (11; 12; 13) for optical fibers, having a transmission section (T) comprising an input connector (21'), to which a single mode or monomodal optical fiber (74') is couplable, an output connector (21"), to which a multimodal optical fiber (75') is coupleable, and a first and a second portion (30, 40) of multimodal optical fibers offset joined together at a respective end, said optic fiber first portion having the other not joined end arranged in said input connector (2Γ), so as to be connectable with said single mode optical fiber (74'), and said optical fiber second portion (40) having the other not joined end arranged in said output connector (21"), so as to be connectable with said multimodal optical fiber (75'). The present invention concerns even a connection cabinet (70) for optical fiber.
Abstract:
The outage probability in an under-addressed optical MIMO system may be reduced by configuring an intra-link optical mode mixer to dynamically change the spatial-mode mixing characteristics of the link on a time scale that is faster than the channel coherence time. Provided that the MFMO system employs an FEC code that has a sufficient error-correcting capacity for correcting the amount of errors corresponding to an average state of the MIMO channel, this relatively fast dynamic change tends to reduce the frequency of events during which the number of errors per FEC-encoded block of data exceeds the error-correcting capacity of the FEC code.
Abstract:
A few-moded fiber device has several discrete sections of few-moded fibers that are separated by mode converters, with each mode converter accomplishing mode conversion between one or more pairs of modes. The mode conversions can be accomplished using a sequence, such as a periodic or cyclic sequence that would cause (1) a signal wave launched with any mode to assume every other mode for one or more times; (2) the number of times the signal remains in any modal state is substantially the same; and (3) the net signal gain or loss or group delay of the input signal is substantially the same regardless of the state of input mode. A laser few-mode amplifier is provided. An optical transmission system is also provided.
Abstract:
The present invention relates generally to optical waveguides for the transmission of electromagnetic energy. The present invention relates more particularly to optical fibers, optical fiber devices, and methods that can be used to remove cladding-propagating energy from a system. One embodiment of the invention is a rough-clad optical fiber section (100) having a first end (102) and a second end (104), the optical fiber section comprising a core (120) a glass cladding (130) disposed about the core, the cladding having an outer surface (132) having an rms surface roughness of at least about 100 nm, the outer surface not being immediately surrounded by polymer layer.
Abstract:
A system configured to generate an optical beam from a fiber laser is presented. The system includes a fiber gain medium having a core and a cladding, the core being configured to convert radiation from a pump beam into an output beam, the cladding having a mode propagating section and a mode stripping section bounded on a near end and a distal end by the mode propagating section, the mode stripping section of the cladding being configured to scatter excess pump radiation received from the mode propagating section in a substantially outwardly radial direction. The system also includes a rigid support member into which the fiber gain medium is placed, the rigid support member completely encompassing the mode stripping section of the cladding and joined to the fiber at the mode propagating section of the cladding.
Abstract:
A device related to multi-mode interferometer technique comprises a first waveguide configured to operate in a first mode, wherein the first waveguide is effective to receive a first wave and propagate the first wave in the first mode along a first path; and a second waveguide in optical communication with the first waveguide. The second waveguide is configured to operate in a second mode and a third mode. The second waveguide includes a reflection surface, and is configured to receive the first wave when the first waveguide propagates the first wave, propagate a second wave in the second mode along the first path in response to the first wave, propagate a third wave in the third mode along the first path in response to the first wave, and reflect the second wave off the reflection surface to produce a first reflected wave and a second reflected wave. The second waveguide is also configured to propagate the first reflected wave in the second mode in a second path, propagate the second reflected wave in the third mode in the second path, reflect the third wave off the reflection surface to produce a third reflected wave and a fourth reflected wave, propagate the third reflected wave in the third mode in the second path, and propagate the fourth reflected wave in the second mode in the second path. A method utilizing the device is provided.