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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 28, 2004
Filed:
Apr. 18, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
NP Photonics, Inc., Tucson, AZ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01S 3/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01S 3/00 ;
Abstract
Phosphate glass fibers are an attractive alternative to silica fibers because they can be co-doped with much higher concentrations of Yb and Er and exhibit a higher optical gain per unit length. However, in such fibers the absorption of the pump is high and heating effects caused by the pump laser can cause a significant change in refractive index. This problem is overcome with a phosphate glass composition that exhibits a temperature coefficient of refractive index &bgr;=dn/dT close to zero. This is achieved by avoiding alkali metal oxides in the glass composition and by adjusting the concentration of the network modifiers such as BaO.