Spectrally and Modally Selective Large Mode Area Fiber Coupler for High Power Applications

• DOI: 10.1364/sof.2018.sow2h.2
• Publication Date: 2018-06-28T20:32:53Z
• Authors: Derrek R. Drachen...; Paul H. Pax; Matthew J. Cook; Robert P. Crist; Victor V. Khitrov; Leily S. Kiani; Nick Schenkel; Jian Liu; Michael J. Messerly; Jay W. Dawson
• Keywords: Mode (computer interface); Port (circuit theory)

A large mode area fiber coupler based on multi-core spectrally and modally filtered transfer is presented. Relative coupling to the cross-port above 80% was measured. Only fundamental observed given a multimode launch.