High-power low spatial coherence random fiber laser

Rui Ma; Jia Qi Li; Jia Yu Guo; Han Wu; Hua Hui Zhang; Bo Hu; Yun Jiang Rao; Wei Li Zhang

doi:10.1364/OE.27.008738

High-power low spatial coherence random fiber laser

Rui Ma
, Jia Qi Li
, Jia Yu Guo
, Han Wu
, Hua Hui Zhang
, Bo Hu
, Yun Jiang Rao^*
, Wei Li Zhang

^*Corresponding author for this work

Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies (AiPT)

University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Aston University

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Abstract

A high-power multi-transverse modes random fiber laser (RFL) is investigated by combining a master oscillator power-amplifier (MOPA) configuration with a segment of extra-large mode area step-index multimode fiber (MMF). Spatial coherence of the high-power multi-transverse modes RFL has been analyzed, which shows that speckle contrast is reduced dramatically with the output power increasing. In this way, considerably low speckle contrast of ~0.01 is achieved under high laser power of ~56 W, which are the records for multi-transverse modes RFLs in both spatial coherence and output power. This work paves a way to develop high-power RFLs with very low spatial coherence for wide-range speckle-free imaging and free-space communication applications.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	8738-8744
Number of pages	7
Journal	Optics Express
Volume	27
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.27.008738
Publication status	Published - 11 Mar 2019

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National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (61635005, 61575040, 61811530062); State 111 Project (B14039); China Scholarship Council (CSC) (201806070008). The authors thank Jian Qiu Cao, Han Wei Zhang, Heng Chen, and Zhi He Huang for useful discussions and experimental guidance.

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