[CThA10C] Fiber Nonlinearity and Devices

[CThA10C-01] Suppressing stimulated Brillouin scattering through higher order mode excitation in a multimode fiber

*Stephen C. Warren-Smith^1,2, Kabish Wisal³, Chun-Wei Chen³, A. Douglas Stone³, Linh V. Nguyen^1,2, Ori Henderson-Sapir², David Ottaway², Heike Ebendorff-Heidepriem², Hui Cao³ (1. Univ. of South Australia (Australia), 2. The Univ. of Adelaide (Australia), 3. Yale Univ. (United States of America))

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We numerically and experimentally demonstrate that spreading power into higher order modes of a multimode optical fiber can be used to suppress stimulated Brillouin scattering for a high-power narrow linewidth system.