All-fiber laser amplification at 1948 nm based on double-cladding Tm/Al co-doped photonic crystal fiber fabricated by laser additive manufacturing

Yongwei Shi; Nan Zhao; Jiantao Liu; Jiaming Li; Zhiyun Hou; Guiyao Zhou

doi:10.3788/COL202321.121401

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Chinese Optics Letters
Vol. 21, Issue 12, 121401 (2023)

All-fiber laser amplification at 1948 nm based on double-cladding Tm/Al co-doped photonic crystal fiber fabricated by laser additive manufacturing

Yongwei Shi^1、2、3, Nan Zhao^{1、2、3、*}, Jiantao Liu^2、3, Jiaming Li^2、3、4, Zhiyun Hou^2、3, and Guiyao Zhou^2、3

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¹School of Electronics and Information, Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University, Guangzhou 510665, China

²Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanophotonic Functional Materials and Devices, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510006, China

³Guangzhou Key Laboratory for Special Fiber Photonic Devices, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510006, China

⁴Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Industrial Ultrashort Pulse Laser Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China

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Yongwei Shi, Nan Zhao, Jiantao Liu, Jiaming Li, Zhiyun Hou, Guiyao Zhou, "All-fiber laser amplification at 1948 nm based on double-cladding Tm/Al co-doped photonic crystal fiber fabricated by laser additive manufacturing," Chin. Opt. Lett. 21, 121401 (2023) Copy Citation Text

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Abstract

In this work, we demonstrated the double-cladding Tm/Al co-doped photonic crystal fiber (PCF) by laser additive manufacturing. The measurements show that the fiber was heavily doped with a

{Tm}^{3 +}

concentration of 2.13% (mass fraction) without any crystallization. The splicing property of PCF was studied, and the integrity of the PCF air holes was maintained during the splicing process. The PCF with combiner pigtail has a splice loss of 0.23 dB. The all-fiber Tm/Al co-doped PCF amplifier system achieves a slope efficiency of 13% at 1948 nm with an output laser power of nearly 1.59 W. An upconversion process was also observed under laser excitation with a 1064 nm pulse. This method provides a new idea to deal with Tm-doped PCF fabrication and promotes the promising application of 2 µm fiber lasers.

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laser laser amplification photonic crystal fiber