• DocumentCode
    2252423
  • Title

    A volume Bragg grating to replace a Faraday isolator in an amplifier with wavefront reversal via SBS

  • Author

    McElhenny, John E. ; White, Jeffrey O. ; Rogers, Steven D. ; Sanamyan, Tigran ; Glebov, Leonid B. ; Smirnov, Vadim I.

  • Author_Institution
    U.S. Army Res. Lab., Adelphi, MD, USA
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    1-6 May 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    Faraday isolators limit the power-scalability of multimode MOPA systems that use SBS to restore the diffraction-limited beam quality. We test a volume Bragg grating, a more scalable alternative, designed to separate wavelengths 0.0604nm (16GHz) apart.
  • Keywords
    Bragg gratings; amplifiers; microwave isolators; optical phase conjugation; Faraday isolator; SBS; amplifier; diffraction-limited beam quality; multimode MOPA systems; volume Bragg grating; wavefront reversal; Bragg gratings; Fiber lasers; Isolators; Laser beams; Optical fiber amplifiers; Reflectivity; Scattering;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1223-4
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5951112
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=2252423