• DocumentCode
    1650114
  • Title

    Measurements of phase error tolerance in passive coherent beam combining

  • Author

    Leger, James R. ; Wan, Chenhao

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    The effects of phase errors on lasers coherently coupled by a passive spatially filtered cavity are experimentally measured. We show that the phases must be kept within approximately ± 0.1 radians to maintain coherence.
  • Keywords
    fibre lasers; laser beams; laser cavity resonators; laser variables measurement; coherently coupled laser; passive coherent beam combining; passive spatially filtered cavity; phase error tolerance; Cavity resonators; Fiber lasers; Laser modes; Loss measurement; Measurement by laser beam; Measurement uncertainty; Phase measurement;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-1839-6
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6325524