Title :
Phase-locked multicore fiber lasers
Author :
Shirakawa, Akira
Author_Institution :
Inst. for Laser Sci., Univ. of Electro-Commun., Chofu, Japan
Abstract :
Arraying fiber lasers is being focused for power and energy scaling and multicore fibers can be a promising format. Phase locking in evanescently-coupled multicore fiber lasers by various in-phase mode selection methods is presented.
Keywords :
fibre lasers; laser mode locking; laser modes; energy scaling; evanescently-coupled multicore fiber lasers; in-phase mode selection methods; phase locking; phase-locked multicore fiber lasers; power scaling; Fiber lasers; Laser beams; Laser mode locking; Laser theory; Multicore processing; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber communication;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
