Ideal for C and L Band amplifiers

The amplification of optical transmission signals is enabled through our high efficiency Erbium doped fibers. Our wide range of Erbium doped optical fibers allows for tailored optical amplifiers (EDFAs) performance based on your requirements.
iXblue’s Erbium Doped Fibers (EDF) products have been optimized to fulfill the exigency of high efficiency and low noise EDFAs in the C & L bands.

For fiber amplifiers and lasers @ 1μm

Our company offers a large choice of Ytterbium single clad and dual clad optical fibers to address a variety of laser performance requirements.

iXblue’s Ytterbium doped fibers have been designed to provide low noise and high optical conversion efficiency in fiber lasers and amplifiers.

For fiber lasers from 1.9 to 2.2 µm

iXblue carries a full range of Holmium doped optical fibers for amplifiers and fiber lasers. Our single clad Holmium doped fiber can be pumped by a Thulium doped fiber laser with direct core pumping. Moreover, our double clad Holmium doped fiber is available for high efficiency multi-mode pump coupling.

For high power CW and pulsed lasers ~2 µm

Triple clad design to be used in high power regime for amplifiers and fiber lasers configuration.

For fiber lasers from 1.9 to 2.2 µm

iXblue proposes a wide range of Thulium/Holmium doped optical fibers for amplifiers and fiber lasers.

For high power CW and pulsed lasers ~2 µm

Triple clad design to be used in high power regime for amplifiers and fiber lasers configuration.

HIGHLIGHTS

Benefits & Features

CW and pulsed fiber lasers @ 2 µm

High pump and consistent absorption

Low M² and NA

Large mode area

High efficiency

High Tm₂0₃ concentration

High efficiency

Heat dissipation

Eye-safe lasers

Applications

2 µm CW & pulsed lasers

2 µm amplifiers

Military and commercial LIDAR

• Laser weapon

Main Specifications

Datasheet

For fiber laser between 890 - 1100 nm

iXblue Photonics offers a complete range of Neodymium fibers with some unique properties.

iXblue Photonics Neodymium Aluminosilicate double clad fibers have been developed to maximize fiber efficiency through a precisely controlled host composition. Compared to a standard Neodymium fiber, the 1.06-micron emission is reduced through careful fiber design optimization.
Our double clad fibers are routinely tested to various parameters such as photodarkening and environmental behavior.

Single clad fibers are also proposed and would be ideal to build seeder sources.

For pump and signal delivery

iXblue’s passive fibers are being used in standard and harsh environment for applications in biotechnology, oil & gas or nuclear physics.

Our passive fiber product line includes a range of polarization maintaining fibers, single and multi-modes fibers, photosensitive fibers and double clad fibers.

For space grade fiber amplifiers

The need for new earth and universe observation satellites is becoming more and more important, with new challenges in this very hostile space environment where components are exposed to ionizing radiation. Longer missions, very distant satellite for deep space sensing, and new telecommunication demands necessitate stronger photonic devices and components to withstand ionizing radiation.
iXblue has produced more than 20 flying navigation systems that are equipped with our fibers and components. We have developed a strong experience in the qualification of such devices in collaboration with end users.

The IXF-PDF & IXF-PDF-PM fiber series are Phosphorous P-Doped fiber especially designed to achieve very high Raman gain at 1.48 micron for high-power pumping of Erbium doped fibers. P-Doped Fiber offers a Raman shifted gain that is three times higher than the germanium-doped fibers.

The main application is to produce high-power sources at 1240 and 1480 nm that can be used as pump lasers in O-band and C-band fiber amplifiers respectively. Indeed, laser diodes are limited to ~200mW of optical output power while Raman lasers can generate 1W. (For 1310 nm Raman fiber amplifiers, the Raman Fiber features very low loss, as it’s a good alternative to the 1480 nm laser diode sources that are limited to 100 to 200 mW output power compared to the 1 watt Raman laser alternative.)

IXF-PDF fibers are efficiently pumped by several 10s of watts Ytterbium PM Double-clad fiber laser with operating wavelength between 1040 to 1120 nm. See also Our FBG and Ytterbium PM product pages.

With Germanium Raman fibers, the necessity to get the third (1240nm) and the sixth Stokes (1480nm) strongly complicates the design by multiplying the number of internal cavities. When pumping the IXF-PDF-PM series with a high power Ytterbium 1060 nm laser, the 1240 and 1480 nm laser are obtained directly at the first and the second Stokes making the design simpler.

Due to the Raman scattering peak at 1320 cm-1, the IXF-PDF series P-doped fibers can also be used to generate signal band light centered at 1.5 µm via stimulated Raman scattering with a 1.3 µm pump light source. The Raman gain is related to the power transfer from the optical pump power to the optical power at signal wavelengths (Stokes wavelengths) and is strongly dependent to the effective Area, to the intrinsic fiber losses and to the Dopants concentrations.

The IXF-PDF series have been optimized to offer the best trade-off between a small effective area, a high level of Phosphorous P₂O₅ dopants in the core of the optical fiber and an optimized Numerical A to increase the overlap of the fundamental mode with the fiber core increasing also Raman amplification efficiency.

Multicore doped fibers- unique base for next gen telecom fiber amplifier

Based on our original telecom experience of making Twincore fibers for the Add/drop mutiplexers, iXblue has developped this unique 12 core Erbium-Ytterbium co-doped fiber.

Both core composition and number of core have been selected in order to provide the best efficiency and lower electrical power consumption versus standard single core pumping scheme.

Having 12 core in the same fiber would also be ideal when user needs to bundle multiple signals in phase - coherent combining.