Determine locking range of coherently combined fiber lasers joined by fiber couplers |
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Authors: | Ruhai Dou Xia Zhou Liping Zhang Jianguo Chen |
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Institution: | Department of Optoelectronics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, PR China |
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Abstract: | When the wavelength difference of two fiber lasers, sharing a common reflection mirror with the aid of an optical coupler, is tuned to fall into a certain range, the array lasers can be locked to generate coherent radiation with a wavelength somewhere between the two constituent field wavelengths. Based on the fact that the laser should oscillate at the wavelength with the lowest losses and the band widths of the reflection curves of the laser tuning elements are finite, the locking range of the laser array has been quantified. For the tuning element (i.e., fiber gratings) selected in this work, the calculations show that the locking range is mainly dependent on the coupling coefficients of the gratings which ever is smaller. |
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Keywords: | Fiber laser Grating The coupling coefficient The locking range |
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