中国物理B ›› 2012, Vol. 21 ›› Issue (5): 54205-054205.doi: 10.1088/1674-1056/21/5/054205

• ELECTROMAGNETISM, OPTICS, ACOUSTICS, HEAT TRANSFER, CLASSICAL MECHANICS, AND FLUID DYNAMICS • 上一篇    下一篇

Multi-wavelength laser active coherent combination

韩凯,许晓军,刘泽金   

  1. College of Opto-electronic Science and Engineering, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China
  • 收稿日期:2011-08-23 修回日期:2012-04-27 出版日期:2012-04-01 发布日期:2012-04-01
  • 基金资助:
    Project supported by the Innovation Foundation for Postgraduates in the National University of Defense Technology, China (Grant No. S090701).

Multi-wavelength laser active coherent combination

Han Kai(韩凯), Xu Xiao-Jun(许晓军), and Liu Ze-Jin(刘泽金)   

  1. College of Opto-electronic Science and Engineering, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China
  • Received:2011-08-23 Revised:2012-04-27 Online:2012-04-01 Published:2012-04-01
  • Supported by:
    Project supported by the Innovation Foundation for Postgraduates in the National University of Defense Technology, China (Grant No. S090701).

摘要: A seed laser oscillating at different frequencies is proved to have the potential to mitigate the stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) effect in a fiber amplifier, which may increase the emission power of a coherent beam combination (CBC) system greatly. In this study, a basic mathematical model describing the multi-wavelength CBC is proposed on the fundamentals of CBC. A useful method for estimating the combination effect and analysing the feasibility and the validity of the multi-wavelength coherent combination is provided. In the numerical analysis, accordant results with four-wavelength four-channel CBC experiments are obtained. Through calculations of some examples with certain spectra, the unanticipated excellent combination effect with a few frequencies involved is explained, and the dependence of the combination effect on the variance of the amplifier chain length and the channel number is clarified.

关键词: fiber laser, coherent beam combination, multi-wavelength laser, optical path difference

Abstract: A seed laser oscillating at different frequencies is proved to have the potential to mitigate the stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) effect in a fiber amplifier, which may increase the emission power of a coherent beam combination (CBC) system greatly. In this study, a basic mathematical model describing the multi-wavelength CBC is proposed on the fundamentals of CBC. A useful method for estimating the combination effect and analysing the feasibility and the validity of the multi-wavelength coherent combination is provided. In the numerical analysis, accordant results with four-wavelength four-channel CBC experiments are obtained. Through calculations of some examples with certain spectra, the unanticipated excellent combination effect with a few frequencies involved is explained, and the dependence of the combination effect on the variance of the amplifier chain length and the channel number is clarified.

Key words: fiber laser, coherent beam combination, multi-wavelength laser, optical path difference

中图分类号:  (Coherence)

  • 42.25.Kb
42.62.-b (Laser applications) 42.55.Wd (Fiber lasers)