Spatial Beam Self-Cleaning in Tapered Yb-Doped GRIN Multimode Fiber With Decelerating Nonlinearity

Spatial Beam Self-Cleaning in Tapered Yb-Doped GRIN Multimode Fiber With Decelerating Nonlinearity

We experimentally demonstrate spatial beam self-cleaning in an Yb-doped graded-index multimode fiber taper, both in passive and active configurations. The input laser beam at 1064 nm was injected for propagation from the small to the large core side of the taper, with laser diode pumping in a counte...

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Main Authors: Alioune Niang, Daniele Modotto, Alessandro Tonello, Fabio Mangini, Umberto Minoni, Mario Zitelli, Marc Fabert, Mesay Addisu Jima, O. N. Egorova, Andrey E. Levchenko, Sergei L. Semjonov, Denis S. Lipatov, Sergey Babin, Vincent Couderc, Stefan Wabnitz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2020-01-01
Series:IEEE Photonics Journal
Subjects:
Fiber nonlinear optics
optical fiber amplifiers.
Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9031306/
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Summary:We experimentally demonstrate spatial beam self-cleaning in an Yb-doped graded-index multimode fiber taper, both in passive and active configurations. The input laser beam at 1064 nm was injected for propagation from the small to the large core side of the taper, with laser diode pumping in a counterdirectional configuration. The Kerr effect permits to obtain high-beam quality amplification with no accompanying frequency conversions. As a result, our nonlinear taper amplifier may provide an important building block for multimode fiber lasers and amplifiers.
ISSN:1943-0655

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