Multi-wavelength laser active coherent combination

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/21/5/054205

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.

Keywords: fiber laser coherent beam combination multi-wavelength laser optical path difference

Received: 23 August 2011
Revised: 27 April 2012
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PACS:	42.25.Kb	(Coherence)
	42.62.-b	(Laser applications)
	42.55.Wd	(Fiber lasers)

Fund: Project supported by the Innovation Foundation for Postgraduates in the National University of Defense Technology, China (Grant No. S090701).

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Han Kai(韩凯), Xu Xiao-Jun(许晓军), and Liu Ze-Jin(刘泽金) Multi-wavelength laser active coherent combination 2012 Chin. Phys. B 21 054205

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