Microstructured polymer fiber laser

Alexander Argyros; Martijn A. Van Eijkelenborg; Stuart D. Jackson; Richard P. Mildren

doi:10.1364/OL.29.001882

Microstructured polymer fiber laser

Alexander Argyros^*, Martijn A. Van Eijkelenborg, Stuart D. Jackson, Richard P. Mildren

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Department of Physics and Astronomy

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Abstract

A microstructured polymer optical fiber doped with Rhodamine 6G dye was fabricated and demonstrated as an optical amplifier and a fiber laser. As an amplifier, the fiber achieved a gain in excess of 30 dB. As a pulsed fiber laser, the fiber exhibited a threshold of 20 μJ, a slope efficiency of 18%, and a lifetime as high as 130,000 shots at 10 Hz. The maximum output energy was 16 μJ. The advantages that such fibers offer lie in the simplicity and flexibility of their fabrication and in their potential for use as compact, tunable solid-state sources.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1882-1884
Number of pages	3
Journal	Optics Letters
Volume	29
Issue number	16
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.29.001882
Publication status	Published - 15 Aug 2004

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