Suppression of stimulated Brillouin scattering in high power fibers using nonlinear phase demodulation

GD Goodno, JE Rothenberg - Optics Express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate a modulation approach that relaxes the limitations imposed by stimulated
Brillouin scattering (SBS) on amplification and propagation of narrow-linewidth light in fibers …

Stimulated Brillouin scattering in optical fibers with end reflections excited by broadband pump waves

MS Bowers, NM Luzod - Optical Engineering, 2019 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The transient theory of stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) in optical fibers is used to
investigate the effects of weak feedback of incident broadband laser fields exhibiting …

Evaluation of the impact of weak end feedback on the SBS threshold in high-power narrow-linewidth fiber amplifiers

W Li, Y Deng, C Qi, Y Chen, P Ma, W Liu, Z Pu, L Si - Optics Express, 2024 - opg.optica.org
In this work, we quantitatively investigate the SBS threshold in high-power narrow-linewidth
fiber amplifiers seeded with phase-modulated single-frequency lasers in presence of weak …

Determination and analysis of line-shape induced enhancement of stimulated Brillouin scattering in noise broadened, narrow linewidth, high power fiber lasers

BS Vikram, R Prakash, V Balaswamy… - IEEE Photonics …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We investigate the origin of line-shape induced enhancement of stimulated Brillouin
scattering (SBS) in narrow linewidth, noise broadened, high-power fiber lasers. A …

Widely tunable near-infrared Raman fiber laser irradiating breast cancer cells leads to cell size reduction and increased granularity of intracellular components as a …

S Aparanji, S Kamat - Optical interactions with tissue and cells …, 2022 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Photodynamic therapy and radiotherapy have traditionally relied on fixed wavelength
sources (typically 1064 nm Nd: YAG laser), due to their ready availability. But with advances …

Polarization properties of noise-initiated stimulated Brillouin scattering in linear birefringent fibers

MS Bowers - JOSA B, 2020 - opg.optica.org
The transient theory of stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) is developed for optical fibers
with constant modal birefringence along its length and arbitrary polarization of the pump and …

Widely linewidth tunable lasers through cascaded four-wave mixing based phase modulation amplification

BS Vikram, R Prakash, VR Supradeepa - Journal of Optics, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We demonstrate wide-range linewidth-tuning of a narrow-linewidth laser in the C-band up to
40 GHz through cascaded four-wave mixing (CFWM) based phase modulation amplification …

Enhancement of stimulated Brillouin scattering thresholds of high power narrow-linewidth fiber lasers through a simple line-broadening scheme using a combination …

BS Vikram, R Prakash, S Aparanji… - … and Devices XIX, 2020 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Narrow linewidth fiber lasers find widespread applications in beam combining, frequency
conversion and remote detection. Power scaling of these lasers is mainly limited by …

Polarization maintaining, narrow linewidth fiber laser with> 1kW output power using a novel dual sine and noise modulation for enhanced SBS suppression

R Prakash, BS Vikram… - Fiber Lasers XVIII …, 2021 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) is the lowest threshold nonlinear effect that limits power
scaling in narrow linewidth continuous wave fiber lasers. While several SBS mitigation …

Source for Spectral Beam Combining

TR Joseph, M Lunavath, R Sehgal… - Advances in Photonics … - books.google.com
We present the design and development of a packaged, narrow-linewidth high power fiber
laser module with output power of 1 kW as the source for Spectral Beam Combining. This is …