Nkt Photonics A/s

Ofs Fitel, LLC

Kim G Jespersen

Carsten L Thomsen

Christian Jakobsen

Jens Kristian Lyngsøe

Thomas Tanggaard Alkeskjold

Martin Dybendal Maack

Martin Erland Vestergaard Pedersen

Jeppe Johansen

Casper Laur Byg

Lars Gruner-Nielsen

Dan Peter Jakobsen

Tuan Le

Lars Grüner-Nielsen

A Photonic Crystal Fiber (PCF) a method of its production and a supercontinuum light source comprising such PCF. The PCF has a longitudinal axis and includes a core extending along the length of said longitudinal axis and a cladding region surrounding the core. At least the cladding region includes a plurality of microstructures in the form of inclusions extending along the longitudinal axis of the PCF in at least a microstructured length section. In at least a degradation resistant length section of the microstructured length section the PCF includes hydrogen and/or deuterium. In at least the degradation resistant length section the PCF further includes a main coating surrounding the cladding region, which main coating is hermetic for the hydrogen and/or deuterium at a temperature below T, wherein Tis at least about 50° C., preferably 50° C.<T<250° C.

Photonic crystal fiber, a method of production thereof and a supercontinuum light source

A Photonic Crystal Fiber (PCF) a method of its production and a supercontinuum light source comprising such PCF. The PCF has a longitudinal axis and includes a core extending along the length of said longitudinal axis and a cladding region surrounding the core. At least the cladding region includes a plurality of microstructures in the form of inclusions extending along the longitudinal axis of the PCF in at least a microstructured length section. In at least a degradation resistant length section of the microstructured length section the PCF includes hydrogen and/or deuterium. In at least the degradation resistant length section the PCF further includes a main coating surrounding the cladding region, which main coating is hermetic for the hydrogen and/or deuterium at a temperature below T, wherein Tis at least about 50&#xb0; C., preferably 50&#xb0; C.&#x3c;T&#x3c;250&#xb0; C.

The invention concerns a Photonic Crystal Fiber (PCF) a method of its production and a supercontinuum light source comprising such PCF. The PCF has a longitudinal axis and comprises a core extending along the length of said longitudinal axis and a cladding region surrounding the core. At least the cladding region comprises a plurality of microstructures in the form of inclusions extending along the longitudinal axis of the PCF in at least a microstructured length section. In at least a degradation resistant length section of the microstructured length section the PCF comprises hydrogen and/or deuterium. In at least the degradation resistant length section the PCF further comprises a main coating surrounding the cladding region, which main coating is hermetic for the hydrogen and/or deuterium at a temperature below Th, wherein Th is at least about 50&#xb0; C., preferably 50&#xb0; C.&#x3c;Th&#x3c;250&#xb0; C.

A dispersion-compensating system and a dispersion-compensating fiber have an improved figure of merit and effective area. The dispersion-compensating system comprises a bulk dispersion-compensating module for providing optical-domain bulk dispersion compensation for an optical signal transmission. Additionally, the system may further comprise residual dispersion compensation, which can be performed in the electrical domain following coherent detection of both amplitude and phase of an optical signal. The dispersion-compensating fiber comprises an up-doped core region; a down-doped trench; an up-doped ring; and an outer cladding, and is configured to have a high figure of merit (FOM).

Dispersion-compensating system and dispersion-compensating fiber with improved figure of merit

Embodiments of the present invention describe systems and methods for delivering ultrashort laser pulses through an optical fiber system with higher order mode fiber output and without pre-chirping. In one embodiment of the present invention, an all-fiber delivery system comprises a mode-locked solid-state or fiber laser for generating laser pulses in the 0.2 &#x3bc;m to 1.3 &#x3bc;m wavelength range, a single mode fiber with normal dispersion, and a long-period-grating mode converter, and a higher order mode fiber with anomalous dispersion, wherein the all-fiber delivery system is free of bulk optics, and propagates laser pulses without pulse pre-chirping, and wherein higher order mode output beam from the all-fiber delivery system comprises pulses at less than about 200 femtoseconds.

Method and system for ultrashort pulse fiber delivery using higher order mode fiber

Embodiments of the present invention are generally related to a fiber assembly, for example, in a chirped pulse amplification system, for all-fiber delivery of high energy femtosecond pulses. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention relate to a system and method for improving dispersion management when using hollow core photonic bandgap fibers for pulse compression. In one embodiment of the present invention, a fiber assembly comprises: an optical laser oscillator; a first fiber section for stretching the pulses from the laser oscillator, the first fiber section comprising a high order mode fiber; and a second fiber section for compressing the stretched pulses, connected to the first fiber section via a splice, the second fiber section comprising a hollow core photonic bandgap fiber; wherein the fiber assembly outputs a pulse compression at less than 200 fs.

Fiber assembly for all-fiber delivery of high energy femtosecond pulses

A stretcher fiber has a core region, inner trench region, ring region, outer trench region, and outer cladding region. The fiber regions are structured to provide the stretcher fiber with a relationship between dispersion and wavelength, such that the second and third derivatives of the stretcher fiber's propagation constant with respect to angular frequency have a shape and wavelength range matching those of a selected compressor module.

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