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Opt Lett. 2017 May 15;42(10):1887-1890. doi: 10.1364/OL.42.001887.

Highly scalable femtosecond coherent beam combining demonstrated with 19 fibers.

Optics letters

J Le Dortz, A Heilmann, M Antier, J Bourderionnet, C Larat, I Fsaifes, L Daniault, S Bellanger, C Simon Boisson, J-C Chanteloup, E Lallier, A Brignon

PMID: 28504751 DOI: 10.1364/OL.42.001887

Abstract

Coherent beam combining in the femtosecond regime of a record number of 19 fibers is demonstrated. The interferometric phase measurement technique, particularly well suited to phase-lock a very large number of fibers, is successfully demonstrated in the femtosecond regime. A servo loop is implemented to control piezoelectric fiber stretchers for both phase and delay variation compensation. The residual phase errors are below λ/60  rms. Nearly 50% of the total energy is contained in the far-field central lobe. After compression, we obtain a combined pulse width of 300 fs identical to the master oscillator pulse width.

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