Controlled generation of picosecond-pulsed higher-order Poincaré sphere beams from an ytterbium-doped multicore fiber amplifier

Kunhao Ji; Di Lin; Ian A. Davidson; Siyi Wang; Joel Carpenter; Yoshimichi Amma; Yongmin Jung; Massimiliano Guasoni; David J. Richardson

doi:10.1364/PRJ.475287

Photonics Research, Volume. 11, Issue 2, 181(2023)

Controlled generation of picosecond-pulsed higher-order Poincaré sphere beams from an ytterbium-doped multicore fiber amplifier

Kunhao Ji¹, Di Lin^1,2,3、*, Ian A. Davidson¹, Siyi Wang¹, Joel Carpenter⁴, Yoshimichi Amma⁵, Yongmin Jung¹, Massimiliano Guasoni¹, and David J. Richardson¹

Author Affiliations

¹Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK

²Current address: Institute of Advanced Photonics Technology, School of Information Engineering, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China

³Current address: Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Photonics Information Technology, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China

⁴School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia

⁵Fujikura Ltd., Chiba 285-8550, Japan

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Category: Lasers and Laser Optics

Received: Sep. 8, 2022

Accepted: Nov. 29, 2022

Published Online: Feb. 8, 2023

The Author Email: Di Lin (dilin@gdut.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.475287

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