The graphene films have been proved to be potentially useful as optical elements in fiber lasers. In this paper, the graphene films are prepared by both pulsed laser deposition (PLD) method and solution deposition method as saturable absorbers in mode-locked fiber laser. The pulse evolution process in the laser cavity is simulated by RP Fiber Power software. The influence of graphene saturable absorber with different modulation depth on pulse duration and linewidth of laser is analyzed. Finally, a ring-cavity passively mode-locked picosecond pulse Erbium-doped fiber laser based on graphene saturable absorber is constructed experimentally. At the pump power of 30mW, the laser with each saturable absorber can work stably without damage in the mode-locked state.
The paper study on the effect of index distribution on the mode field and calculated the mode distribution in various index profiles. A single mode gaussian hybrid multicore fiber with 19 hexagonally arranged high index quartz rods is designed and investigated. Theoretical and simulative results are presented and compared to the conventional large mode area double clad fiber, the fundamental mode (FM) area can be reached 694.28 μm2, the confinement loss of FM and high order modes (HOMs) are 0.186 dB/m and 1.48 dB/m respectively with the bending radius of 20 cm at 1.064 μm wavelength, moreover, the index distribution can resistant the mode field distortion, which caused by fiber bending. So the FM delivery can be formed and the beam quality can be improved.
In this paper, the laser diode (LD) fiber coupling method based on the wavelength multiplexing technique is used. Two different wavelengths of beams from two high power laser diodes are coupled into a single multi-mode fiber via collimating, wavelength combining, focusing and coupling to achieve high efficiently high power output. The output light beam from LD is collimated by using a section of the optical fiber with a diameter of 200μm. According to the basic principle of wavelength multiplexing, the wavelength coupling device is designed. The focusing lens set is designed with the related technical data of fiber and LD. And, two diode laser beams at 808nm and 980nm, light-emitting area of 100μm×1μm, output power of 2W(CW)LDs are coupled into a multi-mode fiber by the above method, with a core diameter of 100μm and a numberical aperture (NA) of 0.22. In the current work, for 808 nm LD and 980 nm LD at a operation current of 2.5 A, the total continuous power output is 4.05 W while the continuous power output is 3.25 W for the optical fiber laser, which gives a total coupling efficiency of as high as 80%.
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