Title
Obscuration-Free Pupil-Plane Phase Locking of A Coherent Array of Fiber Collimators
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
11-1-2010
Publication Source
Journal of the Optical Society of America A
Abstract
Control methods and system architectures that can be used for locking in phase of multiple laser beams that are generated at the transmitter aperture plane of a coherent fiber-collimator array system (pupil-plane phase locking) are considered. In the proposed and analyzed phase-locking techniques, sensing of the piston phase differences is performed using interference of periphery (tail) sections of the laser beams prior to their clipping by the fiber-collimator transmitter apertures. This obscuration-free sensing technique eliminates the need for a beam splitter being directly located inside the optical train of the transmitted beams—one of the major drawbacks of large-aperture and/or high-power fiber-array systems. Numerical simulation results demonstrate efficiency of the proposed phase-locking methods.
Inclusive pages
A106-A121
ISBN/ISSN
1084-7529
Copyright
Copyright © 2010, Optical Society of America
Publisher
Optical Society of America
Volume
27
Issue
11
Place of Publication
Washington, DC
Peer Reviewed
yes
eCommons Citation
Vorontsov, Mikhail; Lachinova, Svetlana; Beresnev, Leonid A.; and Weyrauch, Thomas, "Obscuration-Free Pupil-Plane Phase Locking of A Coherent Array of Fiber Collimators" (2010). Electro-Optics and Photonics Faculty Publications. 95.
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Comments
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