Experimental Investigations on TMI and IM-FWM in Distributed Side-Pumped Fiber Amplifier

The inter-modal four-wave mixing (IM-FWM) and transversal mode instabilities (TMI) are experimentally studied in high-power distributed side-pumped fiber amplifiers. To the best of our knowledge, we have made the first demonstration of TMI and IM-FWM which can be suppressed simultaneously by increas...

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Main Authors: Heng Chen, Jianqiu Cao, Zhihe Huang, Yuan Tian, Zhiyong Pan, Xiaolin Wang, Jinbao Chen
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Published: IEEE 2020-01-01
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Jianqiu Cao
Zhihe Huang
Yuan Tian
Zhiyong Pan
Xiaolin Wang
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description The inter-modal four-wave mixing (IM-FWM) and transversal mode instabilities (TMI) are experimentally studied in high-power distributed side-pumped fiber amplifiers. To the best of our knowledge, we have made the first demonstration of TMI and IM-FWM which can be suppressed simultaneously by increasing the bending diameter. Besides, the experimental results show that the counter-pumping scheme is beneficial to suppress both of IM-FWM and TMI, when comparing with co-pumping scheme. Furthermore, these two effects cannot be observed when the <italic>M<sup>2</sup></italic> factor is lower than 1.3, which can give a condition to estimate whether these two effects should be considered or not. The pertinent study can provide some guidance for understanding TMI and IM-FWM in the high-power fiber laser and amplifier.
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spelling doaj-art-9f5162c4c0ed48eeb02aa111dd60faca2025-08-20T03:32:54ZengIEEEIEEE Photonics Journal1943-06552020-01-0112311310.1109/JPHOT.2020.29892429072654Experimental Investigations on TMI and IM-FWM in Distributed Side-Pumped Fiber AmplifierHeng Chen0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2351-2901Jianqiu Cao1Zhihe Huang2Yuan Tian3Zhiyong Pan4Xiaolin Wang5Jinbao Chen6College of Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, ChinaCollege of Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, ChinaCollege of Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, ChinaCollege of Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, ChinaCollege of Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, ChinaCollege of Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, ChinaCollege of Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, ChinaThe inter-modal four-wave mixing (IM-FWM) and transversal mode instabilities (TMI) are experimentally studied in high-power distributed side-pumped fiber amplifiers. To the best of our knowledge, we have made the first demonstration of TMI and IM-FWM which can be suppressed simultaneously by increasing the bending diameter. Besides, the experimental results show that the counter-pumping scheme is beneficial to suppress both of IM-FWM and TMI, when comparing with co-pumping scheme. Furthermore, these two effects cannot be observed when the <italic>M<sup>2</sup></italic> factor is lower than 1.3, which can give a condition to estimate whether these two effects should be considered or not. The pertinent study can provide some guidance for understanding TMI and IM-FWM in the high-power fiber laser and amplifier.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9072654/Fiber laserfiber nonlinear opticslaser amplifiers
spellingShingle Heng Chen
Jianqiu Cao
Zhihe Huang
Yuan Tian
Zhiyong Pan
Xiaolin Wang
Jinbao Chen
Experimental Investigations on TMI and IM-FWM in Distributed Side-Pumped Fiber Amplifier
IEEE Photonics Journal
Fiber laser
fiber nonlinear optics
laser amplifiers
title Experimental Investigations on TMI and IM-FWM in Distributed Side-Pumped Fiber Amplifier
title_full Experimental Investigations on TMI and IM-FWM in Distributed Side-Pumped Fiber Amplifier
title_fullStr Experimental Investigations on TMI and IM-FWM in Distributed Side-Pumped Fiber Amplifier
title_full_unstemmed Experimental Investigations on TMI and IM-FWM in Distributed Side-Pumped Fiber Amplifier
title_short Experimental Investigations on TMI and IM-FWM in Distributed Side-Pumped Fiber Amplifier
title_sort experimental investigations on tmi and im fwm in distributed side pumped fiber amplifier
topic Fiber laser
fiber nonlinear optics
laser amplifiers
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9072654/
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