Di Lin,1 Joel Carpenter,2 Yutong Fenghttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-6839-2106,1 Yongmin Jung,1 Saurabh Jain,1 Yujung Feng,1 Michalis N. Zervas,1 David J. Richardson1
1Univ. of Southampton (United Kingdom) 2The Univ. of Queensland (Australia)
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We describe an approach capable of generating structured light beams from a compact laser source based on the coherent combination of multiple tailored Gaussian beams emitted from a multicore fiber (MCF) amplifier. We report a proof-of-concept structured light generation experiment, using a cladding-pumped 7-core MCF amplifier as an integrated parallel amplifier array and a spatial light modulator to actively control the amplitude, polarization and phase of the signal light input to each fiber core. We demonstrate the generation of various structured light beams including high-order linearly polarized spatial fiber modes, cylindrical vector beams and helical phase front optical vortex beams.
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Di Lin, Joel Carpenter, Yutong Feng, Yongmin Jung, Saurabh Jain, Yujung Feng, Michalis N. Zervas, David J. Richardson, "Reconfigurable structured light generation in a multicore fiber amplifier," Proc. SPIE 11665, Fiber Lasers XVIII: Technology and Systems, 116651F (5 March 2021); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2588433