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Advanced fibre designs for high power laser beam delivery and generation

Advanced fibre designs for high power laser beam delivery and generation
Advanced fibre designs for high power laser beam delivery and generation
Microstructured optical fiber (MOF) technology provides a powerful means to develop fibers with unique and enabling properties with potential uses spanning a very wide range of applications. Microstructuring of the fiber material allows access to properties unobtainable in the bulk. These include (a) the possibility to guide light in air (through photonic band-gap or low density of state effects) including spectral regions where the bulk is opaque; (b) single mode guidance over extended spectral ranges (referred to as endlessly single mode (ESM) guidance); (c) extended control of dispersion and (d) the fabrication of fibers with very much larger values of Numerical Aperture (NA) than possible using conventional fiber fabrication approaches. Furthermore these unique properties may be tailored to enhance wavelength generation in fibers through non-linear effects or in fibers containing rare-earth dopants. In the following sections we discuss recent progress in the design and fabrication of such fibers that exploit several of these opportunities.
Hayes, John
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Petrovich, Marco N.
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Poletti, Francesco
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Feng, Xian
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Broderick, Neil
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Chen, Kang Kang
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Alam, Shaif-ul
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Lin, Dejiao
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Malinowski, Andrew
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Richardson, David J.
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Hayes, John
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Petrovich, Marco N.
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Poletti, Francesco
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Dasgupta, Sonali
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Feng, Xian
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Loh, Wei
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Broderick, Neil
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Chen, Kang Kang
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Alam, Shaif-ul
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Lin, Dejiao
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Malinowski, Andrew
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Richardson, David J.
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Hayes, John, Petrovich, Marco N., Poletti, Francesco, Dasgupta, Sonali, Feng, Xian, Loh, Wei, Broderick, Neil, Chen, Kang Kang, Alam, Shaif-ul, Lin, Dejiao, Malinowski, Andrew and Richardson, David J. (2009) Advanced fibre designs for high power laser beam delivery and generation. Photonex '09, , Coventry, United Kingdom. 14 - 15 Oct 2009. 2 pp .

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Abstract

Microstructured optical fiber (MOF) technology provides a powerful means to develop fibers with unique and enabling properties with potential uses spanning a very wide range of applications. Microstructuring of the fiber material allows access to properties unobtainable in the bulk. These include (a) the possibility to guide light in air (through photonic band-gap or low density of state effects) including spectral regions where the bulk is opaque; (b) single mode guidance over extended spectral ranges (referred to as endlessly single mode (ESM) guidance); (c) extended control of dispersion and (d) the fabrication of fibers with very much larger values of Numerical Aperture (NA) than possible using conventional fiber fabrication approaches. Furthermore these unique properties may be tailored to enhance wavelength generation in fibers through non-linear effects or in fibers containing rare-earth dopants. In the following sections we discuss recent progress in the design and fabrication of such fibers that exploit several of these opportunities.

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Published date: December 2009
Venue - Dates: Photonex '09, , Coventry, United Kingdom, 2009-10-14 - 2009-10-15

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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/76249
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ORCID for Marco N. Petrovich: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-3905-5901
ORCID for Francesco Poletti: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1000-3083
ORCID for David J. Richardson: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-7751-1058

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Date deposited: 17 Mar 2010
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Author: John Hayes
Author: Sonali Dasgupta
Author: Xian Feng
Author: Wei Loh
Author: Neil Broderick
Author: Kang Kang Chen
Author: Shaif-ul Alam
Author: Dejiao Lin
Author: Andrew Malinowski

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