1.3 μm higher order LP₁₁ mode pulses in praseodymium-doped fluoride fiber laser

Abstract

This work demonstrated an LP11 mode pulse laser at O-band using praseodymium-doped fluoride fiber (PDFF) as a gain medium. The Q-switched laser was initially generated using antinomy-telluride/polyvinyl-alcohol (Sb2Te3/PVA) thin film, and the LP11 modes were analyzed using a beam profiler. The pulse laser was achieved at a pumped power of 273 to 303 mW. With the increase in pump power, the pulse repetition rate increased to a maximum of 60.2 kHz, and the pulse width decreased to a minimum of 2.86 μs. The operating wavelength of the Q-switched output was 1303.2 nm. The corresponding pulse energy and peak power also increased with the increase in pump powers to the maximum of 12.12 nJ and 4.24 mW. The higher-order modes were obtained after the fiber was offset between the single-mode fiber (SMF) and the two-mode fiber (TMF). The TMF output was then connected to the multimode fiber (MMF), a collimator, and the scanning-slit optical beam profiler to observe the higher-order modes. A uniform two-lobe structure of higher-order LP11 modes was observed.