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arXiv:2308.11599 (physics)
[Submitted on 22 Aug 2023 (v1), last revised 12 Jul 2024 (this version, v2)]

Title:Theory of Transverse Mode Instability in Fiber Amplifiers with Multimode Excitations

Authors:Kabish Wisal, Chun-Wei Chen, Hui Cao, A. Douglas Stone
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Abstract:Transverse Mode Instability (TMI) which results from dynamic nonlinear thermo-optical scattering is the primary limitation to power scaling in high-power fiber lasers and amplifiers. It has been proposed that TMI can be suppressed by exciting multiple modes in a highly multimode fiber. We derive a semi-analytic frequency-domain theory of the threshold for the onset of TMI under arbitrary multimode input excitation for general fiber geometries. We show that TMI results from exponential growth of noise in all the modes at downshifted frequencies due to the thermo-optical coupling. The noise growth rate in each mode is given by the sum of signal powers in various modes weighted by pairwise thermo-optical coupling coefficients. We calculate thermo-optical coupling coefficients for all $\sim$$10^4$ pairs of modes in a standard circular multimode fiber and show that modes with large transverse spatial frequency mismatch are weakly coupled resulting in a banded coupling matrix. This short-range behavior is due to the diffusive nature of the heat propagation which mediates the coupling and leads to a lower noise growth rate upon multimode excitation compared to single mode, resulting in significant TMI suppression. We find that the TMI threshold increases linearly with the number of modes that are excited, leading to more than an order of magnitude increase in the TMI threshold in a 82-mode fiber amplifier. Using our theory, we also calculate TMI threshold in fibers with non-circular geometries upon multimode excitation and show the linear scaling of TMI threshold to be a universal property of different fibers.
Subjects: Optics (physics.optics)
Cite as: arXiv:2308.11599 [physics.optics]
  (or arXiv:2308.11599v2 [physics.optics] for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2308.11599
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Related DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0206859
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From: Kabish Wisal [view email]
[v1] Tue, 22 Aug 2023 17:47:08 UTC (8,354 KB)
[v2] Fri, 12 Jul 2024 23:54:17 UTC (8,407 KB)
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