Harnessing a multi-dimensional fibre laser using genetic wavefront shaping
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California Institute of Technology
Abstract
The multi-dimensional laser is a fascinating platform not only for the discovery and understanding of new higher-dimensional coherent lightwaves but also for the frontier study of the complex three-dimensional (3D) nonlinear dynamics and solitary waves widely involved in physics, chemistry, biology and materials science. Systemically controlling coherent lightwave oscillation in multi-dimensional lasers, however, is challenging and has largely been unexplored; yet, it is crucial for both designing 3D coherent light fields and unveiling any underlying nonlinear complexities. Here, for the first time, we genetically harness a multi-dimensional fibre laser using intracavity wavefront shaping technology such that versatile lasing characteristics can be manipulated. We demonstrate that the output power, mode profile, optical spectrum and mode-locking operation can be genetically optimized by appropriately designing the objective function of the genetic algorithm. It is anticipated that this genetic and systematic intracavity control technology for multi-dimensional lasers will be an important step for obtaining high-performance 3D lasing and presents many possibilities for exploring multi-dimensional nonlinear dynamics and solitary waves that may enable new applications.
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© The Author(s) 2020. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Received 23 February 2020; Revised 25 July 2020; Accepted 07 August 2020; Published 26 August 2020. This work was supported in part by US National Institutes of Health (NIH) Grant R01 CA186567 (NIH Director's Transformative Research Award). Author Contributions: X.W. designed and conducted the experiments. J.J. programmed the control system and user interface. Y.S. analysed the experimental results. L.V.W. supervised the project. All authors wrote and revised the manuscript. The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.Attached Files
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- PMC7450085
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- 105121
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- CaltechAUTHORS:20200826-114833895
- R01 CA186567
- NIH
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2020-08-26Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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