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Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 1990

Filed:

Mar. 20, 1989
Applicant:
Inventors:

Robert J Mears, Southampton, Hampshire SO2 4JB, GB;

Laurence Reekie, Southampton, Hampshire SO2 4PJ, GB;

Simon B Poole, Southampton, Hampshire SO2 OPU, GB;

David N Payne, Southampton, Hampshire SO2 5NH, GB;

Assignee:

Other;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H15 / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
372-6 ;
Abstract

An active device (FIG. 1) comprising a length of doped fiber (1) and an end-coupled pump source (11). The fiber (1) is of single-mode geometry and incorporates rare-earth or transition metal dopant ions. These latter are incorporated at a low-level uniform concentration (.ltorsim.900 ppm). The fiber host (1) selected exhibits an inherently ultra low attentuation loss (.ltorsim.40 dB/km) at the emission wavelength. The fibers (1) are generally of long length (e.g. 5 m to 300 m) and may be coiled for compact packaging. The fiber (1) may be formed as part of a Fabry-Perot cavity (1, 7, 9); or, as a ring cavity (FIG. 8) using a doped fiber coupler (29) spliced to form a ring (27). Q-switch and mode-locking devices (19) and gratings (25) may be included as part of the Fabry-Perot cavity to allow pulse-mode operation and/or wavelength tuning, respectively. The fiber (1) may also be utilised as an amplifier.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Mears, Robert. (1990). Fibre-optic lasers and amplifiers (U.S. Patent No. 4955025). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/4955025

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