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Highly nonlinear yttrium-aluminosilicate optical fiber with high intrinsic stimulated Brillouin scattering threshold

Highly nonlinear yttrium-aluminosilicate optical fiber with high intrinsic stimulated Brillouin scattering threshold
Highly nonlinear yttrium-aluminosilicate optical fiber with high intrinsic stimulated Brillouin scattering threshold
Highly nonlinear (high-NA small-mode-area) optical fibers also possessing intrinsically high stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) threshold are described. More specifically, silica clad, yttrium-aluminosilicate core fibers are shown to exhibit an intrinsically low Brillouin gain coefficient between 0.125 and 0.139 × 10-11 m/W, and a Brillouin gain linewidth of up to 500 MHz. Losses on the order of 0.7 dB/m were measured, resulting from impurities in the precursor materials. Nonlinear refractive index values are determined to be similar to that of silica, but significant measurement uncertainty is attributed to the need to estimate dispersion curves since their direct measurement could not be made. The interest for highly nonlinear optical fibers with a low intrinsic Brillouin gain coefficient is expected to continue, especially with the growing developments of narrow-linewidth high energy laser systems.
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Tuggle, M., Kucera, C., Hawkins, T., Sligh, D., Runge, A.F.J., Peacock, A.C., Dragic, P.D. and Ballato, J. (2017) Highly nonlinear yttrium-aluminosilicate optical fiber with high intrinsic stimulated Brillouin scattering threshold. Optics Letters, 42 (23), 4849-4852. (doi:10.1364/OL.42.004849).

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Highly nonlinear (high-NA small-mode-area) optical fibers also possessing intrinsically high stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) threshold are described. More specifically, silica clad, yttrium-aluminosilicate core fibers are shown to exhibit an intrinsically low Brillouin gain coefficient between 0.125 and 0.139 × 10-11 m/W, and a Brillouin gain linewidth of up to 500 MHz. Losses on the order of 0.7 dB/m were measured, resulting from impurities in the precursor materials. Nonlinear refractive index values are determined to be similar to that of silica, but significant measurement uncertainty is attributed to the need to estimate dispersion curves since their direct measurement could not be made. The interest for highly nonlinear optical fibers with a low intrinsic Brillouin gain coefficient is expected to continue, especially with the growing developments of narrow-linewidth high energy laser systems.

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Accepted/In Press date: 20 October 2017
e-pub ahead of print date: 22 November 2017

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Local EPrints ID: 415204
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/415204
ISSN: 0146-9592
PURE UUID: c38b3aba-c482-4d7c-a8de-c47ae3eed25f
ORCID for A.C. Peacock: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1940-7172

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Date deposited: 02 Nov 2017 17:30
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 05:52

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Author: M. Tuggle
Author: C. Kucera
Author: T. Hawkins
Author: D. Sligh
Author: A.F.J. Runge
Author: A.C. Peacock ORCID iD
Author: P.D. Dragic
Author: J. Ballato

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