Generation of nanosecond cylindrical vector beams in two-mode fiber and its applications of stimulated Raman scattering

Wending Zhang; Lu Zhang; Chao Meng; Feng Gao

doi:10.3788/COL202119.010603

Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 19, Issue 1, 010603(2021)

Generation of nanosecond cylindrical vector beams in two-mode fiber and its applications of stimulated Raman scattering

Wending Zhang^1、*, Lu Zhang¹, Chao Meng¹, and Feng Gao²

¹MOE Key Laboratory of Material Physics and Chemistry under Extraordinary Conditions and Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Optical Information Technology, School of Physics Science and Technology, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China

²MOE Key Laboratory of Weak-Light Nonlinear Photonics, TEDA Applied Physics Institute and School of Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300457, China

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Paper Information

Category: Fiber Optics and Optical Communications

Received: Jul. 17, 2020

Accepted: Sep. 4, 2020

Published Online: Dec. 28, 2020

The Author Email: Wending Zhang (zhangwd@nwpu.edu.cn)

DOI:10.3788/COL202119.010603

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