Otto Hans-Jürgen, Jauregui Cesar, Stutzki Fabian, Jansen Florian, Limpert Jens, Tünnermann Andreas
Institute of Applied Physics, Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Albert-Einstein-Str 15, 07745 Jena, Germany.
Opt Express. 2013 Jul 15;21(14):17285-98. doi: 10.1364/OE.21.017285.
We demonstrate an approach to actively stabilize the beam profile of a fiber amplifier above the mode instability threshold. Both the beam quality and the pointing stability are significantly increased at power levels of up to three times the mode instabilities threshold. The physical working principle is discussed at the light of the recently published theoretical explanations of mode instabilities.