Abstract
Coherent beam combination of fiber laser phased array is a promising technique to achieve high-brightness laser output. In this paper, we focus on central-lobe energy enhancement of the combined beam in the far-field by theoretically and experimentally investigating the relationship between the power-in-the-bucket (PIB) of the combined beam in the far-field and the beamlets amplitude modulation in the near-field. We employ a 19-elements fiber laser phased array integrating adaptive fiber-optic collimators with a beamlet filling factor of 0.903 and achieve phase-locking and beamlet pointing correction among fiber lasers using the SPGD algorithm. The amplitude modulation applied to the tiled sub-apertures is used to control the shape of the emissive array's amplitude envelope to further change the PIB of the combined beam under the same total output power. According to theoretical analysis, the fiber laser phased array achieves PIB = 0.51 for a zero truncation ratio (Tr), which is increased to PIB = 0.57 for Tr = 1.3. Experimentally, we observe PIB = 0.49 for Tr = 0 and PIB= 0.56 for Tr = 1.3. The experimental results are in good agreement with the theoretical analysis, suggesting that the amplitude modulation is helpful for further improving the energy density of central-lobe.
Highlights
Coherent beam combination (CBC) of fiber laser phased array (FLPA) provides an approach for achieving laser output with high energy density and high beam quality [1]–[5]
The source is divided into 19 channels by a fiber splitter, and each one is connected to a phase modulator (PM), which is later employed to correct the phase-type errors of the array
One part is focused by a transform lens with a focal length of 2 m and the focused beamlets are sent to a beam splitter (BS)
Summary
Jing Zuo ,1,2,3 Feng Li ,1,2 Chao Geng ,1,2 Fan Zou ,1,2,3 Jiali Jiang, Jiaying Liu, Xu Yang, Tao Yu,.
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