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Abstract
In this Letter, we present a novel, to the best of our knowledge, image-based approach to analyze the mode control ability of a photonic lantern employed in diode laser beam combining, aiming to achieve a stable beam output. The proposed method is founded on theories of power flow and mode coupling and is validated through experiments. The findings demonstrate that the analysis of the beam combining process is highly reliable when the main mode component of the output light is the fundamental mode. Moreover, it is experimentally demonstrated that the mode control performance of the photonic lantern significantly influences the beam combining loss and the fundamental mode purity. In the essence of the variation-based analysis, a key advantage of the proposed method is its applicability even in the situation of a poor combined beam stability. The experiment only requires the collection of the far-field light images of the photonic lantern to characterize the model control ability, achieving an accuracy greater than 98%.
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