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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 29, 2000
Filed:
Mar. 09, 1999
Peter K Cheo, Waterford, CT (US);
PC Photonics Corporation, Waterford, CT (US);
Abstract
A fiber laser 10 with square inner cladding 12, 29 may have a single core 11 codoped either with Ytterbium or Erbium or with Thulium and Holmium at a ratio of at least 10:1 operating in a single mode to provide eye-safe radiation with wavelengths above 1.5 micron. The single core laser has a pump clad cross sectional area about 2(10).sup.3 greater than the cross sectional area of the core. A multi-core laser has a plurality of single mode cores 28 doped with any rare earth ions, the cores equally spaced by at least two core diameters in an isometric array, in a cavity having a finesse of greater than ten, to produce a single, very bright phase-locked beam in the fundamental supermode. A method starts with hexagonal cladded-core rods 35, 36 in an isometric array, which are then fused and drawn down.