• DocumentCode
    2226738
  • 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
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    1-6 May 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1223-4
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5950094
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=2226738