Generation of cylindrical vector beams in a mode-locked fiber laser using a mode-selective coupler

Yu Cai; Jie Wang; Jiaojiao Zhang; Hongdan Wan; Zuxing Zhang; Lin Zhang

doi:10.3788/COL201816.010602

Generation of cylindrical vector beams in a mode-locked fiber laser using a mode-selective coupler

Yu Cai, Jie Wang, Jiaojiao Zhang, Hongdan Wan, Zuxing Zhang^*, Lin Zhang

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Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies (AiPT)

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Abstract

We experimentally obtain cylindrical vector beams (CVBs) in a passively mode-locked fiber laser based on nonlinear polarization rotation. A mode-selective coupler composed of both a single-mode fiber (SMF) and a twomode fiber (TMF) is incorporated into the cavity to act as a mode converter from LP01 mode to LP11 mode with broad spectral bandwidth. CVBs in different mode-locked states including single-pulse, multi-pulse, and bound pulse are obtained, for the first time to our best knowledge. The ultrafast CVBs with different operation states have potential applications in many fields such as laser beam machining, nanoparticle manipulation, and so on.

Original language	English
Article number	010602
Journal	Chinese Optics Letters
Volume	16
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3788/COL201816.010602
Publication status	Published - 10 Jan 2018

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