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Where to Buy Rare-earth-doped Fibers

Active fibers are available with various rare earth dopants such as Yb, Nd, Er, Pr and Tm. They are mostly used for fiber lasers and amplifiers.

ESee also our encyclopedia article on rare-earth-doped fibers!
Related articles: rare-earth-doped gain media, fibers, double-clad fibers, fiber lasers, fiber amplifiers, erbium-doped fiber amplifiers, high-power fiber lasers and amplifiers, photodarkening, specialty fibers

Related products: fibers, rare-earth-doped gain media, fiber optics, laser gain media

Related product category: fiber optics

Check List for Rare-earth-doped Fibers

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  • What kind of laser-active dopant do you need – Er3+, Yb3+, Nd3+, Tm3+ or anything else?
  • Can it be a kind of silica fiber, or do you require some specialty glass, e.g. a fluoride fiber?
  • What doping concentration do you need? Alternatively, manufacturers often specify the absorption at some given wavelength(s).
  • What is the fiber's quality? Is the power conversion efficiency reduced by quenching effects and the like?
  • What is the effective mode area or mode radius? (There are special large mode area fibers.)
  • (For single-mode fibers, the core diameter and numerical aperture are usually not relevant, if the mode area is known.)
  • (The propagation losses are usually not very relevant, except if an unusually long length of fiber is used.)
  • For double-clad fibers: what is the diameter and numerical aperture of the pump cladding? Is the pump cladding circular, elliptical or D-shaped?
  • How tight bending is possible, before the bend losses become too high?
  • How much optical average power can the fiber tolerate? (Additional properties at the launch end may still occur if too much power gets to the coating.)
  • What is the outer fiber diameter with and without protective coating?
  • What is the coating material? Is it a standard material which can be removed with a usual fiber stripper?
  • Can the fiber be cleaved with a standard fiber cleaver? (Fluoride fibers, for example, have quite different mechanical properties than silica fibers.)
  • Are there fiber couplers available for combining pump and signal inputs, or for separate pump and signal at the end?

Also have a look at the check list for general fibers and for double-clad fibers.

In case that you need additional advice, consultancy from RP Photonics may be the solution.


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20 suppliers for rare-earth-doped fibers are listed in the RP Photonics Buyer's Guide. Both manufacturers and distributors can be registered.

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NKT Photonics

Blokken 84
3460 Birkerød
Denmark

Quality: ISO 9000:2015
www.nktphotonics.com
Social: Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube
Tel.: +45 4348 39 00
Fax: +45 4348 39 01
rare-earth-doped fibers

Our ytterbium double clad fibers offer the largest single-mode cores in the world enabling amplification to unprecedented power levels while keeping mode quality and stability. Packaged in an aeroGAIN gain module, the high performance of our fibers are easily accessible for building picosecond or femtosecond ultrafast fiber lasers.

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GEHT International Ltd

27th floor, Bank of East Asia Harbour View Centre
56 Gloucester Road, Wan Chai
Hong Kong
www.gehtinternational.com
E-mail:
Tel.: +358 9 31 58 28 98
From Asia:

FiberLabs Inc.

KDDI Laboratories building, 2–1–15 Ohara, Fujimino-shi, Saitama, 356–8502
Japan
www.fiberlabs.com
Tel.: +81 49 278 7829
Fax: +81 49 263 9328

Furukawa Electric

Marunouchi Nakadori Bldg.
2–3, Marunouchi 2-chome
Chiyodaku, Tokyo 100–8322
Japan
Outside Asia:

AMS Technologies AG

Fraunhoferstr. 22
82152 Martinsried
Germany
www.amstechnologies.com
E-mail:
Tel.: +49 89 89 57 70
Fax: +49 89 89 57 71 99

Coherent Inc.

5100 Patrick Henry Drive
Santa Clara, CA 95054
United States
www.coherent.com
Tel.: +1 408 764 4000
Fax: +1 408 764 4800

CorActive High-Tech Inc.

2700, Jean-Perrin, Suite 121
Quebec G2C 1S9
Canada
www.coractive.com
Tel.: +1 418 845 2466
Fax: +1 418 845 2609

CYBEL, LLC.

1195 Pennsylvania Avenue
Bethlehem, PA 18018–2026
United States
www.cybel-llc.com
E-mail:
Tel.: +1 610 691 7012
Fax: +1 610 691 7012

Elliot Scientific Ltd.

3 Allied Business Centre
Coldharbour Lane
Harpenden AL5 4UT
United Kingdom
www.elliotscientific.com
Tel.: +44 1582 76 6300
Fax: +44 1582 76 6340

Fibercore Limited

University Parkway
Chilworth Science Park
Southampton SO16 7QQ
United Kingdom
www.fibercore.com
E-mail:
Tel.: +44 23 8076 9893
Fax: +44 23 8076 9895

Fibercryst

Parc D'Activite Wilson
Bât A1
69150 Decines Charpieu
France
www.fibercryst.com
Tel.: +33 428 27 00 75
Fax: +33 426 68 98 74

INO

2740 Einstein Street
Quebec, Quebec G1P 4S4
Canada
www.ino.ca
E-mail:
Tel.: +1 418 657 7006

iXblue

34, Rue de la Croix de Fer
78100 Saint Germain-en-Laye
France
www.photonics.ixblue.com
Tel.: +33 1 30 08 88 88

Le Verre Fluore

Rue Gabriel Voisin
Campus Kerlann
35170 Bruz, Brittany
France
www.leverrefluore.com
Tel.: +33 2 99 05 31 30
Fax: +33 2 99 05 39 53

NKT Photonics

Blokken 84
3460 Birkerød
Denmark

Quality: ISO 9000:2015
www.nktphotonics.com
Social: Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube
Tel.: +45 4348 39 00
Fax: +45 4348 39 01
rare-earth-doped fibers

Our ytterbium double clad fibers offer the largest single-mode cores in the world enabling amplification to unprecedented power levels while keeping mode quality and stability. Packaged in an aeroGAIN gain module, the high performance of our fibers are easily accessible for building picosecond or femtosecond ultrafast fiber lasers.

nLight Photonics Corporation

5408 NE 88th Street Building E
Vancouver, WA 98665
Canada
www.nLight.net
Tel.: +1 360 566 4460
Fax: +1 360 546 1960

Nufern

7 Airport Park Road
East Granby, CT 06026
United States
www.nufern.com
Tel.: +1 866 466 0214
Fax: +1 860 844 0210

OFS Global Headquarters

2000 Northeast Expressway
Norcross, Georgia 30071
United States
www.ofsoptics.com
Tel.: +1 770 798 2000

Prysmian Group

Via Chiese 6
20126 – Milan
Italy

Raybium AB

Storgatan 90
851 70 Sundsvall
Sweden

Thorlabs

56 Sparta Avenue
Newton, NJ 07860
United States
www.thorlabs.com
E-mail:
Tel.: +1 973 300 3000
Fax: +1 973 300 3600

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