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

Comments

© 2010 Optical Society of America. One print or electronic copy may be made for personal use only. Systematic reproduction and distribution, duplication of any material in this paper for a fee or for commercial purposes, or modifications of the content of this paper are prohibited.

Permission documentation on file.

Publisher

Optical Society of America

Volume

27

Issue

11

Place of Publication

Washington, DC

Peer Reviewed

yes


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