multicore fiber. To obtain a large-mode area (LMA), we designed and fabricated an active
double-clad multicore fiber, where each ytterbium-doped core is 19 μm in diameter and has
a numerical aperture of 0.067, comparable to the core of the largest available commercial
LMA fibers. The six large cores are stacked tightly in a ring structure to enable phase locking
of the core fields and supermode operation. The fiber laser performance was investigated in …