Abstract
We present an investigation on the threshold of thermal-induced mode instability (MI) in ytterbium-doped polarization-maintaining and non-polarization-maintaining active fibers. By taking both electric fields along the two principal axes into consideration, we extend a previous steady-state theoretical model to analyze the polarization effect on MI. Based on the model, we analyzed whether maintaining the fiber’s polarization direction has an effect on the MI threshold, which showed that, for practical high power fiber laser systems, the MI threshold is nearly the same for polarization-maintaining and non-polarization-maintaining active fibers. Experimental validation of the theoretical analysis is presented with experimental results agreeing with the theoretical results, in which polarization-maintained and non-polarization-maintained fiber lasers with similar core/inner cladding diameters are employed.
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