In order to improve the slop efficiency of the twins fiber, the coating process of the twins fiber was studied. Two kinds of twins fiber with different coating diameters were fabricated by using different coating molds. By building a 1080 nm laser amplification system, the slop efficiency of the twins fiber with different coating diameters was tested. Slop efficiency of the twins fiber with larger coating diameter was 61.2%. Compared to the twins fiber with small diameter, of which the slop efficiency was 58.6%, it increased by 2.6%. That meant appropriate coating process of the twins fiber could effectively increase the slop efficiency. When the slop efficiency was increased, the heat generated by the twins fiber as the pump changed into signal laser would decrease. This would reduce heat management pressure of twins fiber when it was used in optical fiber laser, and make the application of twins fiber have more broad prospect in high power fiber laser.
In recent years, the power level of laser outputting from twins fiber, being of pump unit fiber and gain unit fiber, is continuing rising. However, little report is focused on the pump coupling efficiency and thermal management on account of the distinctive waveguide of twins fiber. In this paper, the experiment study was launched on pump coupling efficiency and thermal management based on our previous work. To facilitate observing, two waveguides were designed as “cycle pump unit + octagonal gain unit” and “cycle pump unit + cycle gain unit”, while both gain units contained no doping core and the claddings were all 125 um approximately. It indicated that the pump power proportion between pump unit and gain unit was gradually changing with increasing of fiber length when the fiber was pumped from only one side of pump unit. The dynamic balance of pump power proportion could be obtained as the length of “cycle pump unit + octagonal gain unit” twins fiber is more than 4 m. By contrast, the balance point appeared earlier for “cycle pump unit + cycle gain unit” twins fiber before the length was up to 4 m. Further, the laser experiment was executed by using typical twins fiber that was consisted of one octagonal gain unit, containing Ytterbium (Yb) doped fiber core, and cycle pump unit. When the power was pumped into the fiber from the pump unit, the temperature of pumping point was obviously lower than conventional double cladding active fiber.
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