Active coherent beam combining of a five-element, 800 W nanosecond fiber amplifier array

作者:Su, Rongtao; Zhou, Pu; Wang, Xiaolin; Zhang, Hanwei; Xu, Xiaojun*
来源:Optics Letters, 2012, 37(19): 3978-3980.
DOI:10.1364/OL.37.003978

摘要

Coherent beam combining of an 800 W nanosecond single-frequency fiber amplifier array has been demonstrated. Five high-power all-fiberized Yb-fiber amplifiers were tiled into a crisscross array, and the laser beams were actively phase-locked by using the stochastic parallel gradient descent algorithm. The contrast of the far-field intensity pattern of the combined beam was more than 91.6%. The combined pulsed laser has a pulse width of similar to 3.5 ns and a peak power of 21.5 kW.