Polarization-maintaining performance of large effective area, higher order modes fiber in a coiled configuration

Raja Ahmad; Jeffrey W. Nicholson; Kazi S. Abedin; Paul S. Westbrook; Clifford Headley; Patrick W. Wisk; Eric M. Monberg; Man F. Yan; David J. DiGiovanni

doi:10.1117/12.2290484

26 February 2018 Polarization-maintaining performance of large effective area, higher order modes fiber in a coiled configuration

Raja Ahmad, Jeffrey W. Nicholson, Kazi S. Abedin, Paul S. Westbrook, Clifford Headley, Patrick W. Wisk, Eric M. Monberg, Man F. Yan, David J. DiGiovanni

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Proceedings Volume 10512, Fiber Lasers XV: Technology and Systems; 105121Q (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2290484
Event: SPIE LASE, 2018, San Francisco, California, United States

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Scaling the power-level of fiber sources has many practical advantages, while also enabling fundamental studies on the light-matter interaction in amorphous guiding media. In order to scale the power-level of fiber-sources without encountering nonlinear impairments, a strategy is to increase the effective-area of the guided optical-mode. Increasing the effective-area of the fundamental mode in a fiber, however, presents the challenges of increased susceptibility to mode-distortion and effective-area-reduction under the influence of bends. Therefore, higher-order-mode (HOM) fibers, which guide light in large effective-area (A_eff) Bessel-like modes, are a good candidate for scaling the power-level of robust fiber-sources. Many applications of high-power fiber-sources also demand a deterministic control on the polarization-state of light. Furthermore, a polarization-maintaining (PM)-type HOM fiber can afford the added possibility of coherent-beam combination and polarization multiplexing of high-power fiber-lasers. Previously, we reported polarization-maintaining operation in a 1.3 m length of PM-HOM fiber that was held straight. The PM-HOM fiber guided Bessel-like modes with A_eff ranging from 1200-2800 μm². In this work, we report, for the first time, that the polarization-extinction-ratio (PER) of the HOM exceeds 10 dB in an 8 m long fiber that is coiled down to a diameter of 40 cm. This opens a path towards compact and polarization-controlled high-power fiber-systems.

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Raja Ahmad, Jeffrey W. Nicholson, Kazi S. Abedin, Paul S. Westbrook, Clifford Headley, Patrick W. Wisk, Eric M. Monberg, Man F. Yan, and David J. DiGiovanni "Polarization-maintaining performance of large effective area, higher order modes fiber in a coiled configuration", Proc. SPIE 10512, Fiber Lasers XV: Technology and Systems, 105121Q (26 February 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2290484

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