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26 February 2018 Theoretical and experimental study of bent fully aperiodic large-pitch fibers for enhancing the high-order modes delocalization
Rémi du Jeu; Romain Dauliat; Dia Darwich; Jean-Louis Auguste; Aurélien Benoît; Baptiste Leconte; Marie-Alicia Malleville; Raphaël Jamier; Kay Schuster; Philippe Roy
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Proceedings Volume 10512, Fiber Lasers XV: Technology and Systems; 105121S (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2290221
Event: SPIE LASE, 2018, San Francisco, California, United States
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The power scaling of fiber lasers and amplifiers has triggered an extensive development of large-mode area fibers among which the most promising are the distributed mode filtering fibers and the large-pitch fibers. These structures enable for an effective higher-order modes delocalization and subsequently a singlemode emission. An interesting alternative consists in using the fully-aperiodic large-pitch fibers, into which the standard air-silica photonic crystal cladding is replaced by an aperiodic pattern made of solid low-index inclusions cladding. However, in such a structure, the core and the background cladding material surrounding it must have rigorously the same refractive index. Current synthesis processes and measurement techniques offer respectively a maximum resolution of 5×10-4 and 1×10-4 while the indexmatching must be as precise as 1×10-5 . Lately a gain material with a refractive index 1.5×10-4 higher than that of the background cladding material was fabricated, thus re-confining the first higher-order modes in the core. A numerical study is carried out on the benefit of bending such fully-aperiodic fiber to counteract this phenomenon. Optimized bending axis and radius have been determined. Experiments are done in a laser cavity operating at 1030 nm using an 88cm-long 51μm core diameter ytterbium-doped fiber. Results demonstrate an improvement of the M2 from 1.7 when the fiber is kept straight to 1.2 when it is bent with a 100 to 60 cm bend radius. These primary results are promising for future power scaling.
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Rémi du Jeu, Rémi du Jeu, Romain Dauliat, Romain Dauliat, Dia Darwich, Dia Darwich, Jean-Louis Auguste, Jean-Louis Auguste, Aurélien Benoît, Aurélien Benoît, Baptiste Leconte, Baptiste Leconte, Marie-Alicia Malleville, Marie-Alicia Malleville, Raphaël Jamier, Raphaël Jamier, Kay Schuster, Kay Schuster, Philippe Roy, Philippe Roy, } "Theoretical and experimental study of bent fully aperiodic large-pitch fibers for enhancing the high-order modes delocalization", Proc. SPIE 10512, Fiber Lasers XV: Technology and Systems, 105121S (26 February 2018); doi: 10.1117/12.2290221; https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2290221
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