高功率光纤激光阵列被动相干组束技术研究

对高功率光纤激光的被动相干组束技术进行了理论和实验研究.介绍了几种典型的被动相干组束技术,并对其功率可提升性进行了分析.详细报道了课题组在光反馈环形腔结构光纤激光相干组束方面的研究进展,研究分析了该相干组束技术的输出光谱特性和路数可提升性,建立了4路和8路高功率光纤放大器的相干组束系统,并分别实现了1062和1090W...     

Array size scaling of passive coherent beam combination in fiber laser array

Array size scaling of passive coherent beam combination is explored theoretically. The Strehl ratio variation with wavelength is simulated in 4-, 9-, 16-, and 25-channel fiber arrays. The average Strehl ratio and phase error are calculated. The Strehl ratio is found to be near 100% for arrays with less than 5 fibers, but decreases significantly for larger arrays. These results are in good agreement with the recent experimental results.     

Passive Phase Locking of Three Nanosecond Fiber Amplifiers Using a Dammann Grating Spatial Filter

A passive coherent beam combination of three nanosecond Yb-doped fiber amplifiers by an all-optical feedback loop is realized by a Dammann grating intracavity spatial filter. By using this diffractive-optics-based spatial filtering technique, three tile-aperture laser beams are phase-locked with a peak power of 1.02kW. The width of the combined pulses is 9.6 ns, and the repetition frequency is 2.208 MHz. The visibility of the far-field interference pattern is up to 82.9%. The results show that this approach can scale to larger arrays and higher powers.