Design and analysis of a modified segmented cladding fiber with large mode area

Abstract This paper proposes a novel segmented cladding fiber structure for large mode area properties. In this structure a thin ring is placed between the high index core and nonuniform cladding. It is called Single-Ring Segmented-Cladding Fiber (SR-SCF). The novel fiber offers the possibility of single-mode(SM) operation from 1 µm to 1.7 µm with a large core diameter. With illustrations, the fiber has a better SM operation than segmented-cladding fiber (SCF) is demonstrated. A large effective area of 1000 µm 2 is achieved. The SM operation with very high suppression of the higher order modes can arise by 76%. Moreover, mode spacing between the adjacent modes (LP 01 and LP 11 ) is also improved significantly. Besides, the bending property is analyzed. It is found that the fiber is insensitive to bending angle ranging from −180° to 180° at bending radius of 30 cm. The proposed fiber will play an important role in developing high power fiber laser, fiber amplifier and high power delivery application.

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