Large Effective Area Optical Fibres for Lasers and Amplifiers

Conference: ECOC 2007 - 33rd European Conference and Exhibition of Optical Communication
09/16/2007 - 09/20/2007 at Berlin, Germany

Proceedings: ECOC 2007

Pages: 4Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Dong, Liang (IMRA America, Inc., 1044 Woodridge Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI, 48105, USA)
Peng, Xiang (Currently at Raydiance, 2602 Challenger Tech Court, Suite 240, Orlando, Florida 32826, USA)

Abstract:
Built-in mode filtering in a leakage channel fibre enables robust fundamental mode operation with effective mode area much larger than that is possible with conventional approaches. Recently effective area exceeding ~3000micrometer2 and PM fibre have been demonstrated.