• Chinese Optics Letters
  • Vol. 11, Issue 5, 050605 (2013)
Jia Liu and Wenhui Fan
DOI: 10.3788/col201311.050605 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
Jia Liu, Wenhui Fan. Experimental study on high efficiency of Ti:sapphire laser to single-mode f iber coupling[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2013, 11(5): 050605 Copy Citation Text show less

Abstract

We experimentally investigate an optimum scheme of coupling a collimated light from a Ti:sapphire laser source into a standard single-mode fiber (SMF). By adjusting the effective numerical aperture (NA) of coupling lens and eliminating the chromatic aberration, a coupling efficiency of around 70% is finally obtained. This result is close to the maximum value predicted by theoretical simulation. It is well demonstrated that high coupling efficiency between Ti:sapphire laser and SMF can also be obtained by optimizing certain parameters of a coupling lens, without employing any special optical components, or the specific fiber with complex structure.
Jia Liu, Wenhui Fan. Experimental study on high efficiency of Ti:sapphire laser to single-mode f iber coupling[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2013, 11(5): 050605
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