Abstract
We explain and experimentally verify how to control unwanted excess gain of higher-order modes in cladding-pumped large-core ytterbium-doped fiber amplifiers through high-brightness tandem-pumping with wavelengths close to the signal wavelength.
© 2010 Optical Society of America
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