drawbacks. Drilling is time-consuming and short-length limited. Extruding method is only feasible for glasses with low softening temperature and is high cost because the dies used to acquire the certain shape are easily destroyed by the high temperature and high pressure imposed by the extruding instrument. Casting technique is also complicated in manufacturing process, and the acquired glasses are inhomogeneous. By comparison, the stack-and-draw method might be an alternative way to reduce the symmetry of the fiber's inner cladding. In the first place, acquiring an asymmetrical inner cladding such as rectangle, hexagon, and D shape is easy by stack-and-draw method [13,14]. On the other hand, this method is economic and is feasible for all types of glasses.In this paper, an Yb-Er co-doped phosphate doubleclad fiber with hexagonal inner cladding was fabricated with stack-and-draw method. The concentration of the Yb and Er ions is 6 and 0.5 wt%, respectively. Output power of 4.9 W was extracted from a 55-cm-long fiber with 30 % slope efficiency.The compositions of the undoped outer cladding glass G2, inner cladding glass G1 and Er-Yb co-doped core glass G0 are 2 O 3 , respectively. The concentration of the Yb and Er ions is 6 and 0.5 wt%, respectively. The measured refractive indices of the undoped outer cladding glasses G2, inner cladding glasses G1, and Er-Yb co-doped core glasses G0 are 1.5133, 1.5378, and 1.5398 at 1.55 µm, respectively, measured by the V-prism method with accuracy of 5 × 10 −5 . The luminescence spectrum and luminescence decay of G0 are shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The life time at 1535 nm is measured to be 8.2 ms. Stack-and-draw method was used to prepare the fiber preform which was then fed into the Abstract An Yb-Er co-doped phosphate glass doubleclad fiber with hexagonal inner cladding was fabricated by stack-and-draw method. Output power of 4.9 W was extracted with slope efficiency of 30 % from the fiber with 55 cm in length.