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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 23, 1999
Filed:
Apr. 10, 1998
Stanislav I Ionov, Calabasas, CA (US);
Dennis C Jones, Malibu, CA (US);
Metin S Mangir, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Hughes Electronics Corporation, El Segundo, CA (US);
Abstract
A Yb-doped cladding pumped fiber laser includes a reflective grating located at each distal end of the laser cavity. Each reflective grating can reflect light propagating inside a fiber core and at a desired wavelength range. A plurality of band-rejecting gratings are disposed between the reflective gratings, whereby the band-rejecting gratings can couple light at an undesired wavelength range and out of the fiber core. When the band-rejecting gratings are in an end-to-end relationship, they are separated by a distance of approximately L whereby L=[(.sigma..sub.e.sup.d +.sigma..sub.a.sup.d)ln 1/T]/[n(.sigma..sub.a.sup.d .sigma..sub.e.sup.u -.sigma..sub.e.sup.d .sigma..sub.a.sup.u)], n is a concentration of ions subject to excitation, .sigma..sub.a.sup.d is an absorption cross section at said desired wavelength range, .sigma..sub.e.sup.u is an emission cross section at said undesired wavelength range, .sigma..sub.e.sup.d is an emission cross section at said desired wavelength range, .sigma..sub.a.sup.u is an absorption cross section at said undesired wavelngth range, and T is a band-rejecting grating transmission factor. The number of band-rejecting gratings is given by N whereby N=d/L.gtoreq.dn (.sigma..sub.a.sup.d .sigma..sub.e.sup.u -.sigma..sub.e.sup.d .sigma..sub.a.sup.u)/[.sigma..sub.e.sup.d +.sigma..sub.a.sup.d) ln 1/T] and d is the length of the laser.