Coherent combining of spectrally broadened fiber lasers

doi:10.1364/OE.15.011731

Optics Express

Editor: C. Martijn de Sterke
Vol. 15, Iss. 18 — Sep. 3, 2007
pp: 11731–11740

Coherent combining of spectrally broadened fiber lasers

T. B. Simpson, F. Doft, P. R. Peterson, and A. Gavrielides »View Author Affiliations

Optics Express, Vol. 15, Issue 18, pp. 11731-11740 (2007)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.15.011731

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Abstract

We demonstrate that fiber lasers spectrally broadened by cross mode coupling can be coherently combined with high efficiency. The spectral broadening that it induces suppresses stimulated Brillouin scattering. Using long cavity length lasers, >800 m, we induce spectral broadening of >50 GHz and show mode by mode coherence in the output of four intracavity coupled fiber lasers.

OCIS Codes
(030.1640) Coherence and statistical optics : Coherence
(060.2320) Fiber optics and optical communications : Fiber optics amplifiers and oscillators
(190.4380) Nonlinear optics : Nonlinear optics, four-wave mixing
(290.5830) Scattering : Scattering, Brillouin

ToC Category:
Fiber Optics and Optical Communications

History
Original Manuscript: June 8, 2007
Revised Manuscript: August 22, 2007
Manuscript Accepted: August 24, 2007
Published: August 30, 2007

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T. B. Simpson, F. Doft, P. R. Peterson, and A. Gavrielides, "Coherent combining of spectrally broadened fiber lasers," Opt. Express 15, 11731-11740 (2007)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-15-18-11731

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A. Shirakawa, K. Matsuo, and K. Ueda, "Fiber laser coherent array for power scaling, bandwidth narrowing, and coherent beam direction control, Proc. SPIE 5709, 165 (2005).
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T. B. Simpson, A. Gavrielides, and P. Peterson, "Extraction characteristics of a dual fiber compound cavity," Opt. Express 10, 1060 (2002). [PubMed]
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Electron. Lett.

D. Sabourdy, V. Kermène, A. Desfarges-Berthelemot, L. Lefort, A. Barthélémy, C. Mahodaux, and D. Pureur, "Power scaling of fiber lasers with all-fibre interferometric cavity," Electron. Lett. 38, 692 (2002). [CrossRef]

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Opt. Fiber Technol.

K. Brown, A.W. Brown, and B. C. Colpitts, "Characterization of optical fibers for optimization of a Brillouin scattering based fiber optic sensor," Opt. Fiber Technol. 11, 131 (2005). [CrossRef]

Opt. Lett.

H. Bruesselbach, D. C. Jones, M. S. Mangir, M. Minden, and J. L. Rogers, "Self-organized coherence in fiber laser arrays," Opt. Lett. 30, 1339 (2005). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Proc. SPIE

A. Shirakawa, K. Matsuo, and K. Ueda, "Fiber laser coherent array for power scaling, bandwidth narrowing, and coherent beam direction control, Proc. SPIE 5709, 165 (2005).

Other

V. A. Kozlov, J. Hernandez-Cordero, and T. F. Morse, "All-fiber coherent beam combining of fiber lasers," Opt. Lett. 24, 1814 (1999), and T. B. Simpson, A. Gavrielides, and P. Peterson, "Coherent intra-cavity coupling of fiber lasers," Proc. 14th Annual Mtng. IEEE LEOS, 62 (2001). [PubMed]
H. Bruesselbach, M. Minden, and J. L. Rogers, D. C. Jones, and M. S. Mangir, "200 W self-organized coherent fiber arrays, 2005 Conference on Lasers and Electro-optics, paper CMDD4, 1, 532 (2005).
G. P. Agrawal, Nonlinear Fiber Optics, 3rd Edition, (Academic Press, 2001).
D. Kouznetsov, J. F. Bisson, A. Shirakawa, and K. Ueda, "Limits of Coherent Addition of Lasers: Simple Estimate," Opt. Review 12, 445 (2005), A. E. Siegman, "Resonant modes of linearly coupled multiple fiber laser structures," available at http://www.stanford.edu/~siegman/coupled_fiber_modes.pdf>.
A. E. Siegman, Lasers, (University Science Books, Mill Valley, CA, 1986), Chap. 12.4.

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