Large Pitch Photonic Quasi-Crystal Fiber Amplifier

We design an ytterbium-doped large pitch photonic quasi-crystal fiber (PQF) for amplifying high-energy ultrashort laser pulses. The proposed fiber exhibits unique properties such as very large mode area (4660 μm2), less attenuation (0.42 dB/km), high overlapping factor (0.55 for the fundamental mode), and low bending loss. These properties help amplify with high-average power ultrashort pulses with less distortion and high efficiency. To meet these requirements, we design a fiber with optimum gain filtering as well as loss filtering. From the numerical simulation of the analytical model, we confirm that the large pitch PQF plays an indispensable role in amplifying high-energy ultrashort pulses.

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