Transverse-mode controlling of a large-mode-area multimode fiber laser

Coiling technique is used to control the transverse mode of a large-mode-area(LMA)multimode fiber laser.By winding the fiber to a coil with different radius,high-order modes of a multimode fiber laser are suppressed one by one and finally 15.4-W single-transverse-mode output is achieved when the coil radius is 20 mm.It is found that as the coil radius decreases,the beam quality of a multimode fiber laser gets better but the slope efficiency drops for higher-order modes are discriminated.During the experiment,as the coil radius of multimode fiber changes,output characteristic of the laser has been measured.Meanwhile, the mode loss of different modes is calculated theoretically.It is proved that the experimental measured results fit well with the theoretically calculated results.