• DocumentCode
    689362
  • Title

    Passive coherent beam combining of fiber lasers: Accurate measurements of phase error tolerance

  • Author

    Hung-Sheng Chiang ; Leger, James R. ; Nilsson, Johan ; Sahu, Jayanta

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    9-14 June 2013
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    A cladding-pumped dual core ytterbium fiber laser is designed and fabricated to measure phase error tolerance in passive coherent beam combining. We show quantitative measurements on the effects of longitudinal modes on phase error tolerance.
  • Keywords
    fibre lasers; laser beams; laser modes; optical design techniques; optical fibre cladding; optical fibre fabrication; optical pumping; ytterbium; cladding-pumped dual core ytterbium fiber laser; longitudinal modes; passive coherent beam combining; phase error tolerance; Fiber lasers; Laser beams; Laser modes; Laser tuning; Measurement by laser beam; Measurement uncertainty; Optical fiber polarization;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6833745