Abstract

The application of a conical wavefront in the near field of the tiled aperture coherent beam combination (CBC) produces a segmented, similar to Bessel-Gauss irradiance pattern (BG-CBC), in the far field. The properties of such a structured optical field were numerically investigated. In contrast to that for the classical CBC, the power diffracted beyond the 'zero' BG-CBC diffraction order is more smoothly and homogenously distributed, not evidencing sharp maxima and dark regions typical for CBC. The novelty of the BG-CBC with segmented conical wavefront is a simple way of caustics elongation and redistribution of power density for the same CBC architecture.

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