Pump and signal power combiners for high-power fiber amplifiers applications

Authors

  • Dorota Sliwinska Laser and Fiber Electronics Group, Wroclaw University of Technology, Wybrzeze Wyspianskiego 27, 50-370 Wroclaw, Poland
  • Pawel Kaczmarek Laser and Fiber Electronics Group, Wroclaw University of Technology, Wybrzeze Wyspianskiego 27, 50-370 Wroclaw, Poland
  • Krzysztof Marek Abramski Laser and Fiber Electronics Group, Wroclaw University of Technology, Wybrzeze Wyspianskiego 27, 50-370 Wroclaw, Poland

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4302/photon.%20lett.%20pl.v7i1.542

Abstract

In this work we present our result on investigation of pump power combiner fabrication process in configuration (N+1)x1. Our fabrication method is based on tapering of fiber bundle consisting of 6 multimode fibers and one signal fiber. We present results on fabrication power combiners based on single mode fibers and large mode area fibers for the signal.

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2015-04-01

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D. Sliwinska, P. Kaczmarek, and K. M. Abramski, “Pump and signal power combiners for high-power fiber amplifiers applications”, Photonics Lett. Pol., vol. 7, no. 1, pp. pp. 29–31, Apr. 2015.

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