CW phase conjugation in optical fibres

Author

Kovalev, Valeri I. ; Harrison, Robert G.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys., Heriot-Watt Univ., Edinburgh, UK

fYear

2005

fDate

12-17 June 2005

Firstpage

176

Abstract

In this report we review progress in extending the beam clean up technology to CW laser sources through the use of multi-mode optical fibre. We report on the operational performance of the new fibre-based optical phase conjugation (OPC)-SBS technology for beam clean up of CW MOPA laser radiation with prospective power scaling from mW´s to kW´s. In this work we also report on the first experimental observation of spectral self-phase conjugation (SpSPC) in SBS. The phenomenon is the spectral (temporal) analogue to conventional (spatial) self-phase conjugation in SBS.

Keywords

laser beams; optical fibres; optical phase conjugation; stimulated Brillouin scattering; CW MOPA laser radiation; CW laser sources; CW phase conjugation; beam clean up technology; fibre-based optical phase conjugation-SBS technology; laser power scaling; multimode optical fibre; operational performance; optical fibres; review; spectral self-phase conjugation; Fiber lasers; Fiber nonlinear optics; Laser excitation; Laser modes; Nonlinear optics; Optical distortion; Optical fibers; Optical pumping; Power lasers; Pump lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe, 2005. CLEO/Europe. 2005 Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8974-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE.2005.1567964

Filename

1567964