Spatial Beam Self-Cleaning in Bi-Tapered Multimode Fibers

We report the spatial beam self-cleaning in bi-tapered conventional multimode fibers (MMFs) with different tapered lengths. Through the introduction of the bi-tapered structure in MMFs, the input beam with poor beam quality from a high-power fiber laser can be converted to a centered, bell-shaped be...

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Autores principales: Xiao-Jun Lin, Yu-Xin Gao, Jin-Gan Long, Jia-Wen Wu, Xiang-Yue Li, Wei-Yi Hong, Hu Cui, Zhi-Chao Luo, Wen-Cheng Xu, Ai-Ping Luo
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Publicado: MDPI AG 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/04f7c97787894308879d85e34364bc97
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Sumario:We report the spatial beam self-cleaning in bi-tapered conventional multimode fibers (MMFs) with different tapered lengths. Through the introduction of the bi-tapered structure in MMFs, the input beam with poor beam quality from a high-power fiber laser can be converted to a centered, bell-shaped beam in a short length, due to the strengthened nonlinear modes coupling. It is found that the bi-tapered MMF with longer tapered length at the same waist diameter shows better beam self-cleaning effect and larger spectral broadening. The obtained results offer a new method to improve the beam quality of high-power laser at low cost. Furthermore, it may be interesting for manufacturing bi-tapered MMF-based devices to obtain the quasi-fundamental mode beam in spatiotemporal mode-locked fiber lasers.