Abstract
We discuss mitigation strategies for optical nonlinearities in high-power fiber amplifiers suitable for coherent or spectral beam combining. The optical nonlinearities include SBS, SRS, XPM and modal instability. Both conventional and microstructured amplifiers are considered.
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