White Papers

Laser Fibers Designed for Single Polarization Output

January 01, 2004

By: Upendra H. Manyam, Bryce Samson, Victor Khitrov, David P. Machewirth, Jaroslaw Abramczyk, Nick Jacobson, Julia Farroni, Doug Guertin, Adrian Carter, and Kanishka Tankala

Presented at ASSP, 2004

Single mode, single-polarization output is demonstrated in a large mode area (LMA) fiber laser. Both mode filtering and polarization filtering are demonstrated by simply coiling multimode Polarization Maintaining Fibers (PMFs). The design is scaleable for all-fiber high power lasers.