• DocumentCode
    1772227
  • Title

    Diffractive coherent combining of >kW fibers

  • Author

    Goodno, Gregory D. ; McNaught, Stuart J. ; Rothenberg, Joshua E. ; Thielen, Peter A. ; Wacks, Martin P.

  • Author_Institution
    Northrop Grumman Aerosp. Syst., Redondo Beach, CA, USA
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    8-13 June 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    Three non-PM, kW-class fiber amplifiers were coherently combined into a 2.4-kW, M2=1.2 beam with 80% efficiency. No power-limiting effects were observed, which anchored scaling predictions to higher powers and efficiencies with larger fiber count arrays.
  • Keywords
    laser beams; optical arrays; optical fibre amplifiers; M2; diffractive coherent combining; efficiency; efficiency 80 percent; fiber count arrays; laser beam; nonPM kW-class fiber amplifiers; power 2.4 kW; scaling predictions; Fiber lasers; Laser beams; Loss measurement; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fiber sensors;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6989835
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1772227