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Kerr self-cleaning of pulsed beam in an ytterbium doped multimode fiber
Vincent CoudercVincent KermèneR. DupiolAbdelkrim BendahmaneAgnès Desfarges-berthelemotAlessandro TonelloStefan WabnitzAlain BarthélémyMarc FabertJean-louis AugusteR. GuenardKatarzyna KrupaGuy Millotsubject
YtterbiumOptical fiberMaterials scienceKerr effectoptical fiberschemistry.chemical_elementcleaningPhysics::Optics02 engineering and technologyRefractive index profilefibers01 natural scienceslaw.invention010309 opticsOpticsKerr effectNonlinear optics fiberslawBrillouin scattering0103 physical sciencesFibercleaning; fibers; optical fibers[PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-OPTICS]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Optics [physics.optics]Multi-mode optical fiber[ PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-OPTICS ] Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Optics [physics.optics]business.industryGainFiber optics sensors021001 nanoscience & nanotechnologyNonlinear wave mixingAtomic and Molecular Physics and OpticschemistryOCIS codes: (060.4370) Nonlinear optics fibers; (060.2370) Fiber optics sensors; (190.4420) Nonlinear opticstransverse effects in; (190.3270) Kerr effect; (190.4223) Nonlinear wave mixing.0210 nano-technologybusinessNonlinear optics transverse effectsdescription
International audience; We experimentally demonstrate that Kerr spatial self-cleaning of a pulsed beam can be obtained in an amplifying multimode optical fiber. An input peak power of 500 W only was sufficient to produce a quasi-single-mode emission from the double-clad ytterbium doped multimode fiber (YMMF) with non-parabolic refractive index profile. We compare the self-cleaning behavior observed in the same fiber with loss and with gain. Laser gain introduces new opportunities to achieve spatial self-cleaning of light in multimode fibers at a relatively low power threshold.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
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| 2017-01-01 |