• DocumentCode
    2226717
  • Title

    Demonstration of coherent beam combination of fiber amplifiers in 100ns-pulse regime

  • Author

    Lombard, L. ; Azarian, A. ; Cadoret, K. ; Bourdon, P. ; Goular, D. ; Canat, G. ; Jolivet, V. ; Jaouën, Y. ; Vasseur, O.

  • Author_Institution
    French Aerosp. Lab., Onera, Palaiseau, France
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    1-6 May 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We present the first experimental coherent beam combining of two fiber amplifiers in 100ns-pulse-regime using a signal leak between the pulses. The ~100W SBS-limited peak power pulses are combined with 95% efficiency and λ/27 phase error.
  • Keywords
    laser beams; optical fibre amplifiers; coherent beam combination; efficiency 95 percent; fiber amplifiers; power pulses; signal leak; time 100 ns; Fiber lasers; Frequency modulation; Laser beams; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber couplers;
  • 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
    5950093