Mutual injection-locking of two individual double-clad fibre lasers

作者:Liu Y*; Chen Y; Xu L; Zhen R; Wang X; Lu Y; Guo Y; Wan Q; Wang H; Sun B
来源:Electronics Letters, 2009, 45(8): 399-U25.
DOI:10.1049/el.2009.0172

摘要

Phase-locking and coherent beam combination of two individual double-clad fibre lasers by a novel extra-cavity mutual injection-locking method are proposed and experimentally demonstrated. Steady interference stripes with high contrast ratio (about 0.5) are observed. The output power of the phase-locked array exceeds 11 W and the power-combining efficiency is about 80%. No power-restriction optical components are utilised in the phase-locking experiment and the output power can be further up-scaled.