Title :
Coherent beam combining of fiber amplifiers in a kW regime
Author :
Flores, Angel ; Shay, Thomas M. ; Lu, Chunte A. ; Robin, Craig ; Pulford, Benjamin ; Sanchez, Anthony D. ; Hult, Dane W. ; Rowland, Ken B.
Author_Institution :
Directed Energy Directorate, Air Force Res. Lab., Kirtland AFB, NM, USA
Abstract :
Single-frequency coherent beam combination (CBC) of 16 fiber lasers with kW class output power is presented. In addition, kW scale CBC of three Photonic Crystal Fiber (PCF) amplifiers in a filled aperture configuration is reported.
Keywords :
holey fibres; laser beams; light coherence; optical fibre amplifiers; photonic crystals; fiber lasers; filled aperture configuration; lasers output power; photonic crystal fiber amplifiers; single-frequency coherent beam combination; Acoustic beams; Fiber lasers; Laser beams; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber polarization; Power amplifiers; Power lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1223-4
