Coherently combining of fiber lasers based on two-stage phase control

Abstract

In this paper, a two-stage phase control method was proposed to increase the control bandwidth of the target-in-the-loop coherent beam combining (CBC) system. Firstly, the principle of the target-in-the-loop CBC system based on two-stage phase control was introduced. In order to verify the feasibility of two-stage phase control technology, then a 7-channel fiber laser array beam combining system was established. The experimental research showed that when the phase noise in the fibers and on the transmission path from the collimators was controlled by two phase controllers respectively, the laser array coherently combined in the far field stably. The power in bucket was 11.4% in the close-loop, which was 70.1% of the theoretical value. The normalized mean voltage detected by the photoelectric detector increased from 0.107 to 0.648, with an increase of 6.1 times. This experiment initially verified the feasibility of the two-stage phase control method, which will be helpful for the control bandwidth increasing in the target-in-the-loop CBC system.