Transverse mode instability

C Jauregui, C Stihler, J Limpert - Advances in Optics and Photonics, 2020 - opg.optica.org
This work presents a review on the effect of transverse mode instability in high-power fiber
laser systems and the corresponding investigations led worldwide over the past decade …

High power fiber lasers: a review

MN Zervas, CA Codemard - IEEE Journal of selected topics in …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we summarize the fundamental properties and review the latest developments
in high power fiber lasers. The review is focused primarily on the most common fiber laser …

High-power fibre lasers

C Jauregui, J Limpert, A Tünnermann - Nature photonics, 2013 - nature.com
Fibre lasers are now associated with high average powers and very high beam qualities.
Both these characteristics are required by many industrial, defence and scientific …

Temporal dynamics of mode instabilities in high-power fiber lasers and amplifiers

HJ Otto, F Stutzki, F Jansen, T Eidam, C Jauregui… - Optics …, 2012 - opg.optica.org
The temporal behavior of mode instabilities in active large mode area fibers is
experimentally investigated in detail. Thus, apart from the onset threshold of mode …

Transverse mode instability, thermal lensing and power scaling in Yb3+-doped high-power fiber amplifiers

MN Zervas - Optics express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Transverse mode instability (TMI) is compared to thermal lensing (TL) power threshold and
used to derive power scaling limits in high-power fiber amplifiers. The TMI power threshold …

Origin of thermal modal instabilities in large mode area fiber amplifiers

B Ward, C Robin, I Dajani - Optics Express, 2012 - opg.optica.org
We present a dynamic model of thermal modal instability in large mode area fiber amplifiers.
This model allows the pump and signal optical intensity distributions to apply a time-varying …

Comprehensive theoretical study of mode instability in high-power fiber lasers by employing a universal model and its implications

R Tao, X Wang, P Zhou - IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present comprehensive theoretical study of mode instability with a universal model for
the first time, which includes quantitative study on the various influence factors and …

Theoretical analysis of mode instability in high-power fiber amplifiers

KR Hansen, TT Alkeskjold, J Broeng, J Lægsgaard - Optics express, 2013 - opg.optica.org
We present a simple theoretical model of transverse mode instability in high-power rare-
earth doped fiber amplifiers. The model shows that efficient power transfer between the …

Impact of photodarkening on the mode instability threshold

HJ Otto, N Modsching, C Jauregui, J Limpert… - Optics …, 2015 - opg.optica.org
The threshold-like onset of mode instabilities is currently the main limitation for the scaling of
the average output power of fiber laser systems with diffraction limited beam quality. In this …

Simplified modelling the mode instability threshold of high power fiber amplifiers in the presence of photodarkening

C Jauregui, HJ Otto, F Stutzki, J Limpert… - Optics express, 2015 - opg.optica.org
In this paper we present a simple model to predict the behavior of the transversal mode
instability threshold when different parameters of a fiber amplifier system are changed. The …