Demonstration of a Stand-alone Cylindrical Fiber Coil for Optical Amplifiers Conference Paper uri icon

abstract

  • 2015 SPIE. The design, fabrication and measurement of a cylindrical fiber coil structure is presented that has applications for compact fiber-optic amplifiers. A multimode fiber is used as a surrogate for a dual clad, rare-earth doped fiber for coil fabrication and optical testing. A ray trace algorithm, written in Python, was used to simulate the behavior of light travelling along the waveguide path. An in-house fabrication method was developed using 3D printed parts designed in SolidWorks and assembled with Arduino-controlled stepper motors for coil winding. Ultraviolet-cured epoxy was used to bind the coils into a rigid cylinder. Bend losses are introduced by the coil, and a measurement of the losses for two coil lengths was obtained experimentally. The measurements confirm that bend losses through a multimode fiber, representative of pump light propagating in a dual-clad rare-earth doped fiber, are relatively wavelength independent over a large spectral range and that higher order modes are extinguished quickly while lower order modes transmit through the windings with relatively low loss.

name of conference

  • Photonic Fiber and Crystal Devices: Advances in Materials and Innovations in Device Applications IX

published proceedings

  • PHOTONIC FIBER AND CRYSTAL DEVICES: ADVANCES IN MATERIALS AND INNOVATIONS IN DEVICE APPLICATIONS IX

author list (cited authors)

  • Laxton, S. R., Bravo, T., & Madsen, C. K.

citation count

  • 0

complete list of authors

  • Laxton, Steven R||Bravo, Tyler||Madsen, Christi K

editor list (cited editors)

  • Yin, S., & Guo, R.

publication date

  • January 2015