Abstract
The comment by Vorontsov and Weyrauch [Appl. Opt.55, 9950 (2016)APOPAI0003-693510.1364/AO.55.009950] is aimed at rebutting the critiques in Sprangle etal. [Appl. Opt.54, F201 (2015)APOPAI0003-693510.1364/AO.54.00F201] and Nelson etal. [Appl. Opt.55, 1757 (2016)APOPAI0003-693510.1364/AO.55.001757]. In the comment, Vorontsov and colleagues describe their experiments aimed at demonstrating the feasibility of coherent combining of lasers on a distant target, using relatively low-power lasers and a cooperative retro-reflective target. The Naval Research Laboratory has demonstrated the capability to project high power on a distant target by making use of an incoherent combining architecture. The proof-of-concept experiments were performed in a realistic environment without employing cooperative targets and without sophisticated adaptive optics instrumentation.
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