Chinese Journal of Lasers, Volume. 39, Issue 1, 102002(2012)

Self-Phase-Locking Action in a Phosphate Twin-Core Fiber and Its Fabrication

Zhang Guang1,2、*, Li Kefeng1, Hu Lili1, and Chen Danping1
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    Nd-doped phosphate glass twin-core fiber (TCF) is prepared by stack-and-draw method. By combining with rod-in-tube technical, a novel design to produce TCF with a various ratio of core diameter to their separation is obtained. The TCF laser employs an 808 nm laser diode (LD) as pump source, a phosphate TCF with a length of 6 cm and a diameter of 620 μm is gain medium, and a resonant cavity is formed by a broadband high reflector and Fresnel reflection provided by perpendicular cleaved end of the active TCF. Above laser threshold, clear and stable interference strips are observed by CCD in far field, showing that TCF laser operates in self-phase-locking. A maximal output power of 52 mW and a slope efficiency of 27.1% with respect to absorbed pump power are obtained. Characteristics of the TCF laser spectra at different output power are also investigated.

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    Zhang Guang, Li Kefeng, Hu Lili, Chen Danping. Self-Phase-Locking Action in a Phosphate Twin-Core Fiber and Its Fabrication[J]. Chinese Journal of Lasers, 2012, 39(1): 102002

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    Paper Information

    Category: Laser physics

    Received: Aug. 15, 2011

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Jan. 4, 2012

    The Author Email: Guang Zhang (maxzw2008@163.com)

    DOI:10.3788/cjl201239.0102002

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