Aimed to maintain excellent beam quality, the influence of pointing deviation on the beam quality is theoretically studied in the dual-grating spectral beam combination (SBC). The incident light field of the fiber laser array with the pointing deviation is built by the transformation of coordinates, and the variation rule of the combined beam quality with random perturbations is discussed by the principle of beam diffraction and the statistical analysis. As a result, the degradation of beam quality for the pointing deviation is respectively 0.31(±0.13) and 3.06(±1.27) for the standard deviation of 0.1 mrad and 0.5 mrad, spreading as a Normal distribution. It can be concluded that the pointing deviation of laser array will destroy the condition of the SBC of the common aperture output, resulting in the continuous growth of the M2 factor. These analyses provide a valid basis for setting up the experimental system of dual-grating SBC.
To suppress high order modes and improve the beam quality, an active self-imaging mode filter based on multimode interference and self-imaging effect is proposed in large mode area (LMA) fiber amplifier. With this filter structure, transverse mode competition and individual transverse mode power distributions in strongly pumped fiber amplifiers are theoretically demonstrated. Employing this mode selection technique in 30/400 LMA strongly pumped fiber amplifier, the percentage of the fundamental mode rises from 27.8% (without filter) to 96.3%. By the modal power decomposition, the M2 parameter of beam quality decrease dramatically from 2.24 to 1.11 (0 relative phase) and from 3.01 to 1.24 (π/2 relative phase). This study provides a new method to achieve single mode in LMA fiber amplifier and this filter would be extended to larger mode area fiber amplifier to improve the beam quality.
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