Numerical investigations of self- and cross-phase modulation effects in high-power fiber amplifiers (Conference Presentation)
| Autor: | Brian Anderson, Iyad Dajani, Mohammad R. Zunoubi, Shadi Naderi, Timothy J. Madden |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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010302 applied physics
Physics business.industry Amplifier Cross-phase modulation Physics::Optics 02 engineering and technology 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology 01 natural sciences Laser linewidth Optics Modulation Fiber laser 0103 physical sciences Optoelectronics Laser power scaling Photonics 0210 nano-technology business Phase modulation |
| Zdroj: | Fiber Lasers XIV: Technology and Systems. |
| DOI: | 10.1117/12.2255019 |
| Popis: | The development of high-power fiber lasers is of great interest due to the advantages they offer relative to other laser technologies. Currently, the maximum power from a reportedly single-mode fiber amplifier stands at 10 kW. Though impressive, this power level was achieved at the cost of a large spectral linewidth, making the laser unsuitable for coherent or spectral beam combination techniques required to reach power levels necessary for airborne tactical applications. An effective approach in limiting the SBS effect is to insert an electro-optic phase modulator at the low-power end of a master oscillator power amplifier (MOPA) system. As a result, the optical power is spread among spectral sidebands; thus raising the overall SBS threshold of the amplifier. It is the purpose of this work to present a comprehensive numerical scheme that is based on the extended nonlinear Schrodinger equations that allows for accurate analysis of phase modulated fiber amplifier systems in relation to the group velocity dispersion and Kerr nonlinearities and their effect on the coherent beam combining efficiency. As such, we have simulated a high-power MOPA system modulated via filtered pseudo-random bit sequence format for different clock rates and power levels. We show that at clock rates of ≥30 GHz, the combination of GVD and self-phase modulation may lead to a drastic drop in beam combining efficiency at the multi-kW level. Furthermore, we extend our work to study the effect of cross-phase modulation where an amplifier is seeded with two laser sources. |
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