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Fiber Optimization for Operation Beyond Transverse Mode Instability Limitations

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2018
Abstract/Description:
Transverse Mode Instabilities (TMIs) stand as a fundamental limitation to power and brightness scaling in laser systems based upon optical fiber technologies. This work comprises experimental and theoretical investigations into fiber laser design that should minimize the effects of Stimulated Thermal Rayleigh Scattering. Theoretical discussions and simulations focus on how fiber parameters affect transverse mode coupling. These include core geometry optimization, pump geometry optimization, in addition to the effects of HOM content and losses on the TMI threshold. Experimentally, a high-power laser facility is commissioned with beam quality diagnostics to quantify the thresholds of the onset of modal interferences and their impacts on beam quality. These diagnostics include high-resolution Fourier Transform Interferometry (FTI) and in-situ power-in-the-bucket measurements. The design and characterization capabilities developed here are crucial to the development of next-generation high-power fiber laser capabilities.
Title: Fiber Optimization for Operation Beyond Transverse Mode Instability Limitations.
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Name(s): Bradford, Joshua, Author
Richardson, Martin, Committee Chair
Gaume, Romain, Committee Member
Amezcua Correa, Rodrigo, Committee Member
Shah, Lawrence, Committee Member
University of Central Florida, Degree Grantor
Type of Resource: text
Date Issued: 2018
Publisher: University of Central Florida
Language(s): English
Abstract/Description: Transverse Mode Instabilities (TMIs) stand as a fundamental limitation to power and brightness scaling in laser systems based upon optical fiber technologies. This work comprises experimental and theoretical investigations into fiber laser design that should minimize the effects of Stimulated Thermal Rayleigh Scattering. Theoretical discussions and simulations focus on how fiber parameters affect transverse mode coupling. These include core geometry optimization, pump geometry optimization, in addition to the effects of HOM content and losses on the TMI threshold. Experimentally, a high-power laser facility is commissioned with beam quality diagnostics to quantify the thresholds of the onset of modal interferences and their impacts on beam quality. These diagnostics include high-resolution Fourier Transform Interferometry (FTI) and in-situ power-in-the-bucket measurements. The design and characterization capabilities developed here are crucial to the development of next-generation high-power fiber laser capabilities.
Identifier: CFE0006980 (IID), ucf:51646 (fedora)
Note(s): 2018-05-01
Ph.D.
Optics and Photonics, Optics and Photonics
Doctoral
This record was generated from author submitted information.
Subject(s): high-power -- laser -- mode-instability -- TMI -- diagnostic -- modelling
Persistent Link to This Record: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0006980
Restrictions on Access: campus 2023-05-15
Host Institution: UCF

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