Skip To Main Content
Marc D. Mermelstein on Muck Rack

Marc D. Mermelstein

As seen in: Optica
Is this you? As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work. Claim your profile

Get in touch with Marc D.

Contact Marc D., search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.

Learn more about Muck Rack

Actions

Share this page

Is this you?

As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.
Claim your profile

Articles

Kerr nonlinearity and the suppression of stimulated Brillouin scattering in narrow-linewidth high-power pulsed fiber amplifiers

|
By Marc D. Mermelstein, MDM Optics
| Optica Verified
A numerical study is presented on the interaction of the Kerr nonlinearity and stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) in high-energy, high-peak-power, and narrow-linewidth pulsed Yb-doped fiber amplifiers. Numerical simulations demonstrate that for high-power nanosecond pulses, a strong Kerr-induced nonlinear phase shift generates a frequency sweep that exceeds the Brillouin gain bandwidth, thereby diminishing the SBS gain.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

SRS and interpulse power limits to the energy extraction from pulsed kW Yb-doped fiber amplifiers

|
By Marc D. Mermelstein, MDM Optics
| Optica Verified
A space-time finite difference model is exercised to examine the performance of large mode area (LMA), high-power, Yb-doped pulsed fiber amplifiers. The simulations include forward and backward amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) and stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) and exhibit good agreement with experimental measurements.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

Material-dependent TMI and SBS threshold power simulations of Yb-doped fiber amplifiers

|
By Marc D. Mermelstein, MDM Optics
| Optica Verified
The influence of engineered glass compositions for the enhancement of the TMI and SBS threshold powers in kW class Yb-doped fiber amplifiers is explored with validated simulations. A reduction in the thermo-optic coefficient and an increase in the thermal conductivity raises the TMI threshold power while the SBS threshold power is increased by a reduction in the Brillouin gain.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?
See all 5 articles