We experimentally demonstrate spatial beam self-cleaning in an Yb-doped graded-index multimode fiber taper, both in passive and active configurations. The input laser beam at 1064 nm was injected for propagation from the small to the large core side of the taper, with laser diode pumping in a counterdirectional configuration. The Kerr effect permits to obtain high-beam quality amplification with no accompanying frequency conversions. As a result, our nonlinear taper amplifier may provide an important building block for multimode fiber lasers and amplifiers.

Spatial Beam Self-Cleaning in Tapered Yb-Doped GRIN Multimode Fiber with Decelerating Nonlinearity

Modotto D.;Mangini F.;Minoni U.;Jima M. A.;
2020-01-01

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We experimentally demonstrate spatial beam self-cleaning in an Yb-doped graded-index multimode fiber taper, both in passive and active configurations. The input laser beam at 1064 nm was injected for propagation from the small to the large core side of the taper, with laser diode pumping in a counterdirectional configuration. The Kerr effect permits to obtain high-beam quality amplification with no accompanying frequency conversions. As a result, our nonlinear taper amplifier may provide an important building block for multimode fiber lasers and amplifiers.
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Manuscript received December 20, 2019; revised February 28, 2020; accepted March 5, 2020. Date of publication March 10, 2020; date of current version March 23, 2020. This work was supported in part by the European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under Grant 740355 and in part by the Russian Ministry of Science and Education under Grant 14.Y26.31.0017. The work of Alessandro Tonello, Marc Fabert, Mesay Addisu Jima, and Vincent Couderc was supported in part by Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) (TRAFIC Project: ANR-18-CE080016-01) and in part by CILAS Company (ArianeGroup) by means of the shared X-LAS laboratory
Fiber nonlinear optics; optical fiber amplifiers
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Niang, A.; Modotto, D.; Tonello, A.; Mangini, F.; Minoni, U.; Zitelli, M.; Fabert, M.; Jima, M. A.; Egorova, O. N.; Levchenko, A. E.; Semjonov, S. L.;...espandi
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