Wavefront shaping enables high-power multimode fiber amplifier with output control
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| author | Rothe, Stefan CHen, Chun-Wei Ahmadi, Peyman Wisal, Kabish Ercan, Mert Lee, KyeoReh VIgne, Nathan Stone, A. Douglas Cao, Hui |
| author_facet | Rothe, Stefan CHen, Chun-Wei Ahmadi, Peyman Wisal, Kabish Ercan, Mert Lee, KyeoReh VIgne, Nathan Stone, A. Douglas Cao, Hui |
| contents | Over the past two decades there have been tremendous advances in high-power fiber lasers, which have provided a powerful tool for science, engineering and defense. A major roadblock for further power scaling of single-frequency fiber laser amplifiers is stimulated Brillouin scattering. Intense efforts were devoted to mitigate this nonlinear process, but mostly limited to single-mode or few-mode fiber amplifiers which have good beam quality. Here we explore a highly multimode fiber amplifier, where stimulated Brillouin scattering is greatly suppressed due to reduction of light intensity in a large fiber core and broadening of Brillouin scattering spectrum by multimode excitation. To control the output beam profile, we apply spatial wavefront shaping technique to the input light of a nonlinear amplifier to focus the output beam to a diffraction-limited spot outside the fiber facet. Our multimode fiber amplifier can operate at high power with high efficiency and narrow linewidth which ensures high coherence. Optical wavefront shaping enables coherent control of multimode laser amplification, with potential applications in coherent beam combining, large-scale interferometry and directed energy delivery. |
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| spellingShingle | Wavefront shaping enables high-power multimode fiber amplifier with output control Rothe, Stefan CHen, Chun-Wei Ahmadi, Peyman Wisal, Kabish Ercan, Mert Lee, KyeoReh VIgne, Nathan Stone, A. Douglas Cao, Hui Optics Over the past two decades there have been tremendous advances in high-power fiber lasers, which have provided a powerful tool for science, engineering and defense. A major roadblock for further power scaling of single-frequency fiber laser amplifiers is stimulated Brillouin scattering. Intense efforts were devoted to mitigate this nonlinear process, but mostly limited to single-mode or few-mode fiber amplifiers which have good beam quality. Here we explore a highly multimode fiber amplifier, where stimulated Brillouin scattering is greatly suppressed due to reduction of light intensity in a large fiber core and broadening of Brillouin scattering spectrum by multimode excitation. To control the output beam profile, we apply spatial wavefront shaping technique to the input light of a nonlinear amplifier to focus the output beam to a diffraction-limited spot outside the fiber facet. Our multimode fiber amplifier can operate at high power with high efficiency and narrow linewidth which ensures high coherence. Optical wavefront shaping enables coherent control of multimode laser amplification, with potential applications in coherent beam combining, large-scale interferometry and directed energy delivery. |
| title | Wavefront shaping enables high-power multimode fiber amplifier with output control |
| topic | Optics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.06423 |