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http://dx.doi.org/10.3807/KJOP.2017.28.4.135

Fabrication of All-fiber 7x1 Pump Combiner Based on a Fiber Chip for High Power Fiber Lasers  

Choi, In Seok (ICT Materials & Componenets Research Lab, ETRI)
Jeon, Min Yong (Department of Physics, Chungnam National University)
Seo, Hong-Seok (ICT Materials & Componenets Research Lab, ETRI)
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Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics / v.28, no.4, 2017 , pp. 135-140 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, we report measured results for an all-fiber $7{\times}1$ pump combiner based on an optical fiber chip for high-power fiber lasers. An optical-fiber chip was fabricated by etching a fiber, having core and cladding diameters of 20 and $400{\mu}m$, in the longitudinal direction. To both ends of the etched chip, we spliced input and output fibers. First, we tied together seven optical fibers, having core and cladding diameters of 105 and $125{\mu}m$ respectively, in a cylindrical bundle and spliced them to the $375-{\mu}m$ end of the optical-fiber chip. Then, we attached an output DCF with core and cladding diameters of 25 and $250{\mu}m$ to the $250-{\mu}m$ end of the optical-fiber chip. Finally, the fabricated $7{\times}1$ pump combiner showed an average optical coupling efficiency of about 90.2% per port. This chip-based pump combiner may replace conventional pump combiners by massive production of fiber chips.
Keywords
Pump combiner; Optical fiber chip; High-power fiber laser;
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