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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 1998
Filed:
Nov. 12, 1996
Stephen Gregory Grubb, Fremont, CA (US);
Clifford Headley, North Plainfield, NJ (US);
Martin Heinrich Muendel, Cambridge, MA (US);
Janet Renee Pedrazzani, Summit, NJ (US);
Bennett H Rockney, Westford, MA (US);
Thomas A Strasser, Chatham, NJ (US);
Lucent Technologies, Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
Applicants have discovered that the intermodal beat noise of a fiber multimode laser can be substantially reduced by providing the fiber with an output coupler of broadened bandwidth. In a preferred embodiment, a reduced-noise, high power light source comprises a cladding pumped fiber laser having a chirped output grating. Experiments show that increasing the output bandwidth from 0.254 to 0.577 nm reduces the relative intensity-to-noise ratio 10 dB in a Nd-doped fiber laser. Increasing the bandwidth from 0.2 nm to 0.3 nm in a Yb-doped laser similarly reduces the noise by 12 dB.