Alioune Niang
Alioune Niang

Combination of Kerr Beam Self-Cleaning and Supercontinuum Generation in Tapered Ytterbium-doped Multimode Fiber with Parabolic Core Refractive Index and Doping Profile

Alioune Niang
alioune.niang@unibs.it
Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Università degli Studi di Brescia, via Branze 38, 25123, Brescia, Italy
The non-linear multimode optical fibers are opened a new window to study the spectral, spatial and temporal degrees of freedom of light beams that has been received a great fundamental and applicative interest during the last decades. In this article, we demonstrate spatial beam self-cleaning and supercontinuum generation in a new type of multimode fiber amplifier, consisting of a Ytterbium-doped (Yb-doped) multimode fiber taper with parabolic index refractive and doping profile, and a length of 9.5 m with a core diameter exponentially decreasing along its length from 120 to 40 microns. The beam self-cleaning, a bell-shaped output beam profile, has been achieved in passive configuration with an input beam peak power threshold of 20 kW and further increasing the input power causes no significant frequency conversion that can be attributed to the first Raman Stokes sideband. In active configuration, the gain leads to combine self-cleaning with supercontinuum generation, spanning from the visible to the mid-infrared (520-2600 nm), which is due to the geometric parametric instability and the Raman stokes sideband. In both configurations, the self-beam cleaning in the tapered fiber can be ascribed to the accelerated self-imaging. Finally, we studied the evolution of self-cleaning and super continuum generation as a function of taper length in active configuration to analyze the spatial and spectral beam dynamics resulting accelerated self- imaging. We observed that the speckled output spatial distribution in the first meters evolved into a dual lobe, LP11 mode, and finally into the fundamental mode (LP01). The results obtained confirm the combination of accelerated self-imaging with landscape dissipative in the tapered Yb-doped multimode fiber with graded index profile that leads to control spectral and spatial light beams in the active mode.