Spectrum collapse in a 7-core Yb-doped fiber laser with an array of fs-inscribed fiber Bragg gratings

Femtosecond inscription of fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) in each core of a cladding-pumped seven-core Yb-doped fiber enables efficient (≈70%) 1064-nm lasing in a robust all-fiber scheme with ≈33 W power, nearly the same for uncoupled and coupled cores. However, the output spectrum is quite different:...

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Published in:Optics letters 2023-07, Vol.48 (13), p.3603-3606
Main Authors: Kuznetsov, Alexey G, Wolf, Alexey A, Egorova, Olga N, Semjonov, Sergey L, Dostovalov, Alexander V, Podivilov, Evgeniy V, Babin, Sergey A
Format: Article
Language:English
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Bragg gratings
Coupling
Doped fibers
Fiber lasers
Laser arrays
Spectra
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Summary:Femtosecond inscription of fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) in each core of a cladding-pumped seven-core Yb-doped fiber enables efficient (≈70%) 1064-nm lasing in a robust all-fiber scheme with ≈33 W power, nearly the same for uncoupled and coupled cores. However, the output spectrum is quite different: without coupling, seven individual lines corresponding to the in-core FBG reflection spectra sum up into a broad (0.22 nm) total spectrum, whereas the multiline spectrum collapses into a single narrow line at strong coupling. The developed model shows that the coupled-core laser generates coherent superposition of supermodes at the wavelength corresponding to the geometric mean of the individual FBG spectra, whereas the generated laser line broadens, with a power (0.04-0.12 nm) like the single-core mode of a seven-times larger effective area.
ISSN:0146-9592
1539-4794
DOI:10.1364/OL.493139