Hybrid Side-polished pump combiner as an integrated building block for robust all-fiber mid-IR lasers (IMAGE)

Light Publishing Center, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics And Physics, CAS

Hybrid Side-polished pump combiner as an integrated building block for robust all-fiber mid-IR lasers

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Hybrid Side-polished pump combiner as an integrated building block for robust all-fiber mid-IR lasers. a Schematic and operation principle of the side-polished pump combiner comprising silica and fluoride optical fibres; b Quality of polished fibre surfaces; c Schematic of the Mid-IR Er3+-doped fluoiride all-fibre laser with integrated side-polished pump combiner; d Output spectra and power of the Mid-IR fibre laser, showing 15.5% generation efficiency at 2.78 µm.

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by Boris Perminov, Kirill Grebnev, Uwe Hübner and Maria Chernysheva

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