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System and method for high beam quality pulse generation in mode-locked multimode fiber lasers

Demetri Psaltis, Christophe Moser, Ugur Tegin
2021
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A system and method to generate ultrashort high beam quality pulses from spatio- temporally mode-locked multimode fiber laser are described. The invention relies on engineering the intra-cavity pulse propagation in a multimode laser cavity to shape the spatial and temporal properties of the output pulses. The invention allows the generation of Kerr-induced self-beam cleaning when mode-locking is obtained. Using this invention, high power ultrashort pulses can be achieved with a Gaussian mode profile by using commercially available multimode fibers.

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Demetri Psaltis, Christophe Moser, Ugur Tegin
2021
Patents

Abstract

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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/7c584dcb-09c6-4779-8617-d129ec13be65

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Fiber laser

A fiber laser (or fibre laser in Commonwealth English) is a laser in which the active gain medium is an optical fiber doped with rare-earth elements such as erbium, ytterbium, neodymium, dysprosium, praseodymium, thulium and holmium. They are related to doped fiber amplifiers, which provide light amplification without lasing. Fiber nonlinearities, such as stimulated Raman scattering or four-wave mixing can also provide gain and thus serve as gain media for a fiber laser.

Laser

A laser is a device that emits light through a process of optical amplification based on the stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation. The word laser is an anacronym that originated as an acronym for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation. The first laser was built in 1960 by Theodore Maiman at Hughes Research Laboratories, based on theoretical work by Charles H. Townes and Arthur Leonard Schawlow. A laser differs from other sources of light in that it emits light that is coherent.

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