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RP Fiber Power – Simulation and Design Software
for Fiber Optics, Amplifiers and Fiber Lasers

Data for Active Fibers

The software RP Fiber Power comes with data for a variety of rare-earth-doped fibers. These data include spectroscopic information (transition cross sections, upper-state lifetime, doping concentration) as well as details of the waveguide structure (core size, effective mode area, propagation losses, etc.). Having such data, you can immediately start to simulate the performance of fiber amplifiers and lasers.

Various Data from Publicly Available Sources

The following data from publicly available sources are currently delivered with RP Fiber Power:

• “Yb-germanosilicate”: data for an ytterbium-doped germanosilicate fiber, recorded by Dr. Paschotta. As most ytterbium-doped fibers are based on a similar silicate glass composition, these data can be used in many cases.
• “ErYb-phosphate”: erbium- and ytterbium-doped phosphate glass
• “Er-fluorophosphate L11”: erbium-doped fluorophosphate glass
• “Er-fluorozirconate F88”: erbium-doped fluorozirconate glass
• “Er-silicate L22”: erbium-doped silicate glass

Data from Fiber Manufacturers

RP Photonics is currently establishing a cooperation with various manufacturers for rare-earth-doped fibers. Essentially, this means

• that fiber manufacturers supply data for their fibers to RP Photonics,
• that RP Photonics transforms the data into a format which can directly be used in the RP Fiber Power software, and provides some help with checking and completing the data,
• that those customers purchasing (or already having) user licenses of RP Fiber Power obtain these data.

Obviously, this will be of great help for the software users: they can simulate the possible performance with such fibers, without having to deal themselves with the problem of obtaining the data.

So far, the following data are officially available:

	CorActive offers a variety of active fibers, including single-clad and large mode area double-clad fibers doped with ytterbium, erbium, erbium/ytterbium, neodymium, thulium or samarium. So far, data for various ytterbium-doped fibers are available; others will follow.
	iXblue offers various active fibers, including single-clad and large mode area double-clad fibers doped with ytterbium, erbium, erbium/ytterbium, neodymium or thulium. Currently, data for various ytterbium-doped fibers are in preparation; others will follow.
	NKT Photonics offers a variety of photonic crystal fibers, including ytterbium-doped double-clad versions and double-clad rod fibers with extremely large mode areas. Currently, we are preparing data sets for a number of these fibers.
	nLight offers erbium-doped and ytterbium-doped fibers, both single-mode and double-clad versions. Currently, data for various fibers are in preparation.

Customers already having a software user license can obtain new and updated data via a download.

Note: Within the technical support, we can provide you with any data files for fibers from additional suppliers, as far as these data are made available by the suppliers. For example, Nufern has published data on many fibers, and we can process these.