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公开(公告)号:US09397464B2
公开(公告)日:2016-07-19
申请号:US14576335
申请日:2014-12-19
Applicant: Lumentum Operations LLC
Inventor: Martin H. Muendel , Xiuquan Ma , Kai-Hsiu Liao , Matthew Kutsuris
CPC classification number: H01S3/06708 , H01S3/0675 , H01S3/06754 , H01S3/08018 , H01S3/08022 , H01S3/0804 , H01S3/091 , H01S3/094007 , H01S3/094061 , H01S3/09415 , H01S3/10 , H01S3/10023 , H01S3/1618
Abstract: A modal instability of a fiber amplifier may be reduced by coupling, e.g. splicing, a length of passive multimode optical fiber to an active multimode optical fiber of the fiber amplifier. Upon launching light into the passive optical fiber, some higher order transversal modes may be excited in the passive optical fiber. The higher-order modes may interfere with the fundamental mode in the passive multimode optical fiber. However, the intermodal interference of the launched modes does not cause thermal gradients in the passive optical fiber. Upon propagation in the passive multimode optical fiber, the excited optical modes may lose mutual coherence, causing a reduction of contrast of the intermodal interference pattern along the doped core of the active optical fiber, effectively reducing modal instability in the active optical fiber.
Abstract translation: 光纤放大器的模态不稳定性可以通过耦合,例如, 将一段长度的无源多模光纤连接到光纤放大器的有源多模光纤。 在将光发射到无源光纤中时,可以在无源光纤中激发一些较高阶的横向模式。 高阶模式可能会干扰无源多模光纤中的基本模式。 然而,发射模式的联合干扰不会导致无源光纤中的热梯度。 在无源多模光纤中传播时,激发的光学模式可能失去相互相干性,导致沿着有源光纤的掺杂核心的多模式干涉图案的对比度降低,有效地降低了有源光纤中的模态不稳定性。