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.
Our study describes the development of coherent beam combining of an array of nine fiber lasers using an all-optical ring cavity feedback loop based on a diffractive optical element to achieve a single-aperture output. Nine 300-mW Yb-doped fiber amplifier beams arranged in a 1 × 9 end-cap array were combined to achieve a single-aperture beam with a power of 739 mW and a beam quality (M2) of 1.18 with 21.5% combining efficiency. The optical spectra, far-field distributions, and time-domain characteristics of the combined beams were investigated under open- and closed-loop conditions. Under open-loop conditions, the far-field coherent visibility changed constantly from 72.1% to 90.9% and the fluctuation intensity was strong. Under closed-loop conditions, the system achieved a steady state with a visibility of 98.6% and an average feedback intensity of 0.4 V, indicating the occurrence of phase locking. Furthermore, mode hopping was observed when there were more than four channels in a combination. However, the system interference pattern remained stable. Comprehensive research on the relevant literature indicated that novel filled-aperture CBC was achieved using an all-optical ring cavity feedback loop based on a DOE.
Diffractive optical element is used to realize single-aperture output for passive coherent combining of 8-channel fiber laser. Using this system, we demonstrated the far-field coherent visibility, output spectrum and beam quality after coherent combining. Experimental results show that phase noise will cause the mode frequency to change under multi-channel conditions. However, the beam quality and the coherent visibility after coherent combination do not change significantly. The far-field coherence visibility reached 98.6%, the beam quality M2=1.21, and the diffraction limit magnification factor β reached 1.98. This shows that in the presence of low phase noise, even if the number of channels is increased, a coherent combined output with high beam quality can be obtained.
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.
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.
In this paper, we demonstrate an ytterbium-doped all-fiber master-oscillator power amplifier (MOPA) system which uses a narrow-linewidth seed source, generating narrow-linewidth and high power continuous-wave output power at 1064nm. Our MOPA configuration system consist of three amplifier stages. We use single-mode Yb-doped fiber as the gain fiber in the first and second pre-amplifier stages, so it can keep good beam quality before entering the main amplifier stage. In order to raise the threshold of nonlinear effects, such as SBS and SRS, and to relieve heat effect, our high power system choose large mode area (LMA) fiber as the gain fiber in the main amplifier stage. For the sake of suppressing high-order modes in LMA fiber, we design novel watering cooling plates of different sizes, and using them in our main amplifier stage. By optimizing its structure, we get very good laser beam pattern on CCD at high power output. The beam quality factor (M2) was about 1.4 at 1.31 kW.
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