title: Polarizing ytterbium-doped all-solid photonic bandgap fiber with ~1150µm(2) effective mode area.
abstract: We demonstrate an Yb-doped polarizing all-solid photonic bandgap fiber for single-polarization and single-mode operation with an effective mode area of ~1150µm(2), a record for all-solid photonic bandgap fibers. The differential polarization mode loss is measured to be >5dB/m over the entire transmission band with a 160nm bandwidth and >15dB/m on the short wavelength edge of the band. A 2.6m long fiber was tested in a laser configuration producing a linearly polarized laser output with a PER value of 21dB without any polarizer, the highest for any fiber lasers based on polarizing fibers.
authors.forename: Fanting
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Kong
authors.forename: Guancheng
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Gu
authors.forename: Thomas W
authors.initials: TW
authors.lastname: Hawkins
authors.forename: Joshua
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Parsons
authors.forename: Maxwell
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Jones
authors.forename: Christopher
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Dunn
authors.forename: Monica T
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Kalichevsky-Dong
authors.forename: Benjamin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Pulford
authors.forename: Iyad
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Dajani
authors.forename: Kunimasa
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Saitoh
authors.forename: Stephen P
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Palese
authors.forename: Eric
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Cheung
authors.forename: Liang
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Dong