We report design of a tapered fiber that can be used for compression of pulses at different central wavelengths. The proposed fiber is a 3-layer W-type large-mode-area fiber, which has been tapered to transform the mode area from 1700 μm 2 to 900 μm 2 . We determine the exact length of the maximum pulse compression and numerically demonstrate the compression of 250 fs, 100 kW peak power input pulse to 15 fs, 850 kW at 1.55 μm wavelength and 250 fs, 120 kW peak power input pulses to 28 fs, 700 kW and to 46 fs, 500 kW at 1.8 μm and 2 μm wavelengths, respectively. Such a fiber can find wide ranging applications including in communication, spectroscopy and medicine.
We propose a fiber design consisting of ring-shaped erbium-doped core surrounded by circularly arranged holes of varying radius in fused silica glass to amplify higher-order orbital angular momentum (OAM) modes. We numerically demonstrate simultaneous amplification of 20 OAM modes (
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