University of Central Florida Research Foundation Inc

Justin Cook

Martin C Richardson

Robert Bernath

Nathan Bodnar

Patrick Roumayah

Soumya Sarang

Alex Sincore

Nicholas Vail

A thulium fiber is described. The thulium fiber is designed for in-band pumping. The thulium fiber may take advantage of higher efficiencies and lower thermal load associated with in-band pumping. The thulium fiber may include a triple clad design. The triple clad design may offer a balance between thermal effects, modulation instability thresholds, and pump absorption. The thulium fiber may provide greater than 5 kilowatts of continuous wave (CW) output power across the 1950-2100 nanometer region.

High power in-band pumped, triple clad thulium fiber

A supercontinuum source may include a seed source providing seed light, where the seed source includes one or more seed lasers to generate the seed light and a seed controller to adjust at least one of a temporal pulse profile or a wavelength of the seed light. The supercontinuum source may further include an optical fiber to receive the seed light, where the seed source pumps the optical fiber to induce the generation of supercontinuum output light, and where a spectrum of the supercontinuum output light is controllable by adjusting at least one of the temporal pulse profile or the wavelength of the seed light with the seed controller.

Spectral control of supercontinuum light

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Justin Cook