Impact of fiber outer boundaries on leaky mode losses in leakage channel fibers

G Gu, F Kong, TW Hawkins, P Foy, K Wei, B Samson… - Optics …, 2013 - opg.optica.org
In a leakage channel fiber, the desired fundamental mode (FM) has negligible waveguide
loss. Higher-order modes (HOM) are designed to have much higher waveguide losses so …

Quantitative mode quality characterization of fibers with extremely large mode areas by matched white-light interferometry

F Kong, G Gu, TW Hawkins, J Parsons, M Jones… - Optics …, 2014 - opg.optica.org
Quantitative mode characterization of fibers with cores much beyond 50µm is difficult with
existing techniques due to the combined effects of smaller intermodal group delays and …

Cross-correlation imaging for waveguide characterization

RA Barankov - arXiv preprint arXiv:1206.0666, 2012 - arxiv.org
Confined geometries, such as optical waveguides, support a discrete set of eigen-modes. In
multimoded structures, depending on the boundary conditions, superposition states can …

Design and fabrication of large-mode area air-clad leakage channel fiber with superior bending characteristics

M Pal, K Saitoh, MC Paul, D Ghosh… - IEEE Photonics …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We investigate the bending characteristics of leakage channel fibers (LCFs) to achieve large-
mode area and effectively single-mode operation with a practically allowable bending radius …

Advanced specialty fiber designs for high power fiber lasers

G Gu - 2016 - search.proquest.com
The output power of fiber lasers has increased rapidly over the last decade. There are two
major limiting factors, namely nonlinear effects and transverse mode instability, prohibiting …

High Average Power Nanosecond Pulsed Tm: Fiber Laser for Pumping an Optical Parametric Oscillator

A Abdulfattah - 2016 - stars.library.ucf.edu
Thulium-doped fiber lasers operating with wavelengths in the vicinity of 2 µm are useful for
several emerging applications including generating mid-IR light via nonlinear frequency …

Quantitative Mode Quality Characterization in a Leakage Channel Fiber with 100 μm Core Diameter

F Kong, G Gu, TW Hawkins, J Parsons… - Specialty Optical …, 2014 - opg.optica.org
Quantitative Mode Quality Characterization in a Leakage Channel Fiber with 100 µm Core
Diameter Page 1 SoW2B.5.pdf Advanced Photonics İ 2014 OSA Quantitative Mode Quality …

Large-mode-area Fibers Enabled by Significant Differential Mode Losses

L Dong, F Kong, TW Hawkins, G Gu, P Foy… - Workshop on Specialty …, 2013 - opg.optica.org
Large-mode-area Fibers Enabled by Significant Differential Mode Losses Page 1 T2.3.pdf
Workshop on Specialty Optical Fibers and their Applications © OSA 2013 Large-mode-area …