Monolithic amplifier based on a chirally-coupled-core fiber

authored by

Sven Hochheim, Michael Steinke, Joona Koponen, Tyson Lowder, Steffen Novotny, Jörg Neumann, Dietmar Kracht

Abstract

Single-frequency fiber amplifiers are promising candidates to fulfill the challenging requirements regarding laser sources in the next generation of interferometric gravitational wave detectors (GWD) [1]. High optical output power levels up to 1 kW are required to increase the sensitivity of such GWDs. For the realization of such high output power, fiber amplifiers with large mode field areas (LMA) are required due to stimulated Brillouin scattering. However, larger core diameters also result in guided higher order modes. For this reason Chirally-Coupled-Core (3C) fibers have been developed, where additional sidecores decouple higher modes via phase matching and evanescent field coupling.

External Organisation(s)

Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V. (LZH)
nLIGHT

Type

Conference contribution

Publication date

2019

Publication status

Published

Peer reviewed

Yes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Spectroscopy, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Instrumentation, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Computer Networks and Communications

Electronic version(s)

https://doi.org/10.1109/cleoe-eqec.2019.8872811 (Access: Closed)