Title :
A volume Bragg grating to replace a Faraday isolator in an amplifier with wavefront reversal via SBS
Author :
McElhenny, John E. ; White, Jeffrey O. ; Rogers, Steven D. ; Sanamyan, Tigran ; Glebov, Leonid B. ; Smirnov, Vadim I.
Author_Institution :
U.S. Army Res. Lab., Adelphi, MD, USA
Abstract :
Faraday isolators limit the power-scalability of multimode MOPA systems that use SBS to restore the diffraction-limited beam quality. We test a volume Bragg grating, a more scalable alternative, designed to separate wavelengths 0.0604nm (16GHz) apart.
Keywords :
Bragg gratings; amplifiers; microwave isolators; optical phase conjugation; Faraday isolator; SBS; amplifier; diffraction-limited beam quality; multimode MOPA systems; volume Bragg grating; wavefront reversal; Bragg gratings; Fiber lasers; Isolators; Laser beams; Optical fiber amplifiers; Reflectivity; Scattering;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1223-4
