Ytterbium doped all solid Large Pitch Fiber made from powder sintering and vitrification

Romain Dauliat (1) , Dmitry Gaponov (1) , Aurélien Benoit (1) , François Salin (2) , Kay Schuster (3) , Sylvia Jetschke (3) , Stephan Grimm (3) , Philippe Roy (1)

1 XLIM-PHOT - Photonique Fibre et Sources Cohérentes
2 Eolite Systems
3 Friedrich-Schiller-Universität = Friedrich Schiller University Jena [Jena, Germany]

We report on the study, the fabrication and the characterization of an all-solid Large Pitch Fiber (LPF) made from an innovative synthesis process based on a powder sintering and vitrification. This fiber is actively doped with ytterbium and presents a large core of 50µm.

Mots clés: Lasers and laser optics; Lasers; fiber; ytterbium

Domaines: Physique [physics]; Physique [physics]; Optique [physics.optics]

Romain Dauliat, Dmitry Gaponov, Aurélien Benoit, François Salin, Kay Schuster, et al.. Ytterbium doped all solid Large Pitch Fiber made from powder sintering and vitrification. International Conference on Fibre Optics and Photonics, Dec 2012, Chennai, India. paper TPo.7, ⟨10.1364/PHOTONICS.2012.TPo.7⟩. ⟨hal-00912955⟩