Manipulating refractive index, homogeneity and spectroscopy of Yb$^{3+}$-doped silica-core glass towards high-power large mode area photonic crystal fiber lasers - Archive ouverte HAL
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Manipulating refractive index, homogeneity and spectroscopy of Yb$^{3+}$-doped silica-core glass towards high-power large mode area photonic crystal fiber lasers

Wang Fan
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Hu Lili
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Xu Wenbin
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Wang Meng
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Feng Suya
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Ren Jinjun
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Zhang Lei
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Chen Danping
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Gao Guojun
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Yu Chunlei
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Wang And Shikai
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Résumé

Output power scaling of single mode large mode area (LMA) photonic crystal fiber (PCF) amplifiers urgently requires the low refractive index of Yb 3+-doped silica glasses whilst maintaining high optical homogeneity. In this paper, we report on a promising alternative Yb 3+ /Al 3+ /F-/P 5+-co-doped silica core-glass (YAFP), which is prepared by modified sol-gel method developed by our group and highly suitable for fabricating high power LMA PCF amplifiers. By controlling the doping combinations of Al 3+ /F-/P 5+ in Yb 3+doped silica glass,it not only ensures low refractive index (RI) but also maintains the excellent optical homogeneity and spectroscopic properties of Yb 3+. The spectroscopic properties of Yb 3+ ions have not deteriorated by the co-doping of Fand P 5+ in YAFP glass compared with that of Yb 3+ /Al 3+ co-doped silica glass. A large-size (⌀5 mm × 90 mm) YAFP silica-core glass rod with low average RI difference of 2.6 × 10 −4 (with respect to pure silica glass), and low radial and axial RI fluctuations of ~2 × 10 −4 , was prepared. A LMA PCF with 50 µm core diameter was obtained by stack-capillary-draw techniques using YAFP core glass. Its core NA is 0.027. An average amplified power of 97 W peaking at 1030 nm and light-light efficiency of 54% are achieved from a 6.5 m long PCF in the pulse amplification laser experiment. Meanwhile, quasi-single-mode transmission is obtained with laser beam quality factor M 2 of 1.4.
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hal-03799895 , version 1 (10-10-2022)

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Wang Fan, Hu Lili, Xu Wenbin, Wang Meng, Feng Suya, et al.. Manipulating refractive index, homogeneity and spectroscopy of Yb$^{3+}$-doped silica-core glass towards high-power large mode area photonic crystal fiber lasers. Optics Express, 2017, 25 (21), pp.25960. ⟨10.1364/oe.25.025960⟩. ⟨hal-03799895⟩
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