In this work, we investigate the SBS mitigation of the pseudo random bit sequences (PRBS) modulation analytically and numerically. The lightwave is phase modulated by a Butterworth lowpass filtered and amplified PRBS signal, and the SBS suppressing capability versus the parameters such as the filter order, the filter cutoff frequency, the modulation depth, and the pattern length are illustrated. Therefore, we redefine the modulation depth by normalized RMS voltage to integrate binary sequences modulation signal and multi-value sequences modulation signal. On this basis, we demonstrate the impact of pattern length, modulation depth and modulation cutting rate on SBS mitigation and found the corresponding optimal component of n=9, 22.72 dBm and 0.54. On this situation, contrast to the unfiltered PRBS phase modulation scheme, a 17.7% enhancement of normalized SBS threshold can be obtained by using normalized power in the barrel to estimates the linewidth. This work may provide a new idea for SBS mitigation by lowpass filtered PRBS phase modulation in narrow linewidth fiber amplifiers.
In this paper, we investigated the association between beam quality and beam characteristic in theory in a spectral beam combining system and built a model to describe the dispersion. We analyzed that how the beam quality varies with different input beam parameters such as the waist radius 𝑤𝑤0 and the spectral width Δλ. There is a surprising result that the increased w0 and Δλ have a coefficient influence on the beam quality degradation, and the degradation is pretty sensitive to the increase of waist radius w0. The result gives us a guidance that besides using the narrow linewidth laser, we also need reduce the waist radius of the input beam in the SBC system appropriately to abate the beam quality degradation caused by dispersion.
In this study, the total deviation of central diffracted beams caused by the periodic projection effect and refraction of zero-order diffracted beam of diffractive optical element was theoretically investigated. The theoretical model of the relationship between the total deviation of central diffracted beams and the combining angle of the ith order incident beam was developed. Inversely, the total deviation of central diffracted beams can be used to calibrate the actual combining angle of the ith order incident beam, further guide the correction of the actual combining angle in coherent beam combining.
We investigated the beam quality improvement of a tiled-aperture coherent beam combining by changing the intensity distribution of fiber beamlets array. An optimal gradient power distribution of the beam array is found. The beam quality is improved by 12.6% with a fill factor of 0.5 with gradient distribution architecture compared with the uniform distribution. With the expansion of the array scale, the improvement of beam propagation factor is becoming more obvious. In addition, the effects of phase error and beamlet arrangement layout are also researched, which shows the propagation factor of the hexagonal ring arrangement is improved by 16.14% compared with the ring arrangement under the gradient arrangement. The effect of phase error on the combined beam quality with respect to the gradient distribution is discussed.
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