• DocumentCode
    1650041
  • Title

    Coherent beam combination of fiber laser arrays via multiplexed volume Bragg gratings

  • Author

    Lu, Chunte A. ; Flores, Angel ; Bochove, Erik ; Roach, William P. ; Smirnov, Vadim ; Glebov, Leonid B.

  • Author_Institution
    Directed Energy Directorate, Air Force Res. Lab., Kirtland AFB, NM, USA
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We report the first experimental demonstration of active coherently combining of fiber laser arrays with multiplexed volume Bragg gratings up to 70W combined output power with diffraction limited beam quality achieved at 82% combining efficiency.
  • Keywords
    Bragg gratings; fibre lasers; laser beams; light coherence; coherent beam combination; diffraction limited beam quality; fiber laser arrays; multiplexed volume Bragg gratings; power 70 W; Diffraction; Fiber lasers; Laser beams; Measurement by laser beam; Multiplexing; Optical fiber theory; Power lasers;
  • 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
    6325521