Applicants have discovered that the intermodal beat noise of a fiber multimode laser can be substantially reduced by providing the fiber with an output coupler of broadened bandwidth. In a preferred embodiment, a reduced-noise, high power light source comprises a cladding pumped fiber laser having a chirped output grating. Experiments show that increasing the output bandwidth from 0.254 to 0.577 nm reduces the relative intensity-to-noise ratio 10 dB in a Nd-doped fiber laser. Increasing the bandwidth from 0.2 nm to 0.3 nm in a Yb-doped laser similarly reduces the noise by 12 dB.
申请公布号
US5805621(A)
申请公布日期
1998.09.08
申请号
US19960747946
申请日期
1996.11.12
申请人
LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
发明人
GRUBB, STEPHEN GREGORY;HEADLEY, CLIFFORD;MUENDEL, MARTIN HEINRICH;PEDRAZZANI, JANET RENEE;ROCKNEY, BENNETT H.;STRASSER, THOMAS A.