In this paper, methods of welding and sealing optically transparent materials using an ultrashort pulsed (USP) fiber laser are demonstrated which overcome the limit of small area welding of optical materials. First, the interaction of USP fiber laser radiation inside glass was studied and single line welding results with different laser parameters were investigated. Then multiline scanning was ...

As a light source for the space gravitational wave detector DECIGO/DPF, we have developed space-borne frequency-stabilized lasers. The light source was an Yb-doped fiber laser with the wavelength of 1030nm. The frequency of the Yb-fiber laser was stabilized in reference to the saturated absorption of iodine molecules so as to suppress the frequency noise down to 1 Hz/rtHz at 1s. We will report ...

We describe a fiber-optic gyroscope based on the Sagnac effect, realized on a multiplexed telecom fiber network. Our loop encloses an area of 20 km² and coexists with Internet data traffic. This Sagnac interferometer is capable of detecting signals that are larger than 10(-8) (rad/s)/√Hz, thus approaching ring laser gyroscopes without using a narrow-linewidth laser or sophisticated optics. The ...

We have demonstrated a 45 μm core diameter Neodymium-doped all-solid silicate glass photonic crystal fiber laser with a single mode laser output. The structure parameters and modes information of the fiber are both demonstrated by theoretical calculations using Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) method and experimental measurements. Maximum 0.8 W output power limited by launched pump power ha...

We propose and demonstrate a tunable erbium-based fiber ring laser with power-equalized output. When a mode-restricting intracavity fiber Fabry-Perot tunable filter (FFP-TF) is combined, the proposed resonator can guarantee a tunable laser oscillation. This proposed laser can obtain the flatter lasing wavelength in an effectively operating range of 1533.3 to 1574.6 nm without any other operatin...

We demonstrate a powerful diode-pumped blue laser source, consisting of a 7W diode at 807nm that pumps a Nd:YAG laser giving 1.6W with good beam quality at 1123nm, and a thulium-doped upconversion fiber laser. The maximum output power achieved at 481nm is 230mW. We also describe the behavior of a reversible loss which is generated in the fluoride fiber during high power operation.

Recent progress in research on optical fiber devices, especially optical fiber couplers and optical fiber grating couplers, by a new fabrication method, that is, a CO2 laser irradiation method is reviewed. Furthermore, applications of optical fiber grating couplers are also described. Key-words: Optical Fiber Device, Optical Fiber Coupler, Optical Fiber Grating Coupler

We report significant performance improvement of a mode-locked fiber laser gyroscope. A Fabry-Perot cavity GaAlAs laser diode whose front facet was antireflection coated was used as a gain medium. The rms noise equivalent rotation rate measured with a time-interval counter was improved to 0.06deg/ radicalh. The long-term drift of the gyroscope signal was reduced to 100deg/ radicalh after a pola...

In this paper we report some experimental results concerning the stripping in any portion of the optical fibers at 10.6 μm wavelength. These experimental procedures have been performed using a CO2 laser with 40 W power and a galvanometer scanner with 150 mm focal length. The objective of this paper was to find the optimal conditions (speed of the laser along the optical fiber) for a good stripp...

We have measured the longitudinal power distribution inside a random distributed feedback Raman fiber laser. The observed distribution has a sharp maximum whose position depends on pump power. The spatial distribution profiles are different for the first and the second Stokes waves. Both analytic solution and results of direct numerical modeling are in excellent agreement with experimental obse...