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Coherent beam combining of two all-PM thulium-doped fiber chirped pulse amplifiers

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In this paper,we report a coherent beam combining(CBC)system that involves two thulium-doped all-polarization maintain-ing(PM)fiber chirped pulse amplifiers.Through phase-locking the two channels via a fiber stretcher by using the stochastic parallel gradient descent(SPGD)algorithm,a maximum average power of 265 W is obtained,with a CBC efficiency of 81%and a residual phase error of λ/17.After de-chirping by a pair of diffraction gratings,the duration of the combined laser pulse is compressed to 690 fs.Taking into account the compression efficiency of 90%and the main peak energy proportion of 91%,the corresponding peak power is calculated to be 4 MW.The laser noise characteristics before and after CBC are examined,and the results indicate that the CBC would degrade the low frequency relative intensity noise(RIN),of which the integration is 1.74%in[100 Hz,2 MHz]at the maximum combined output power.In addition,the effects of the nonlinear spectrum broadening during chirped pulse amplification on the CBC efficiency are also investigated,showing that a higher extent of pulse stretching is effective in alleviating the spectrum broadening and realizing a higher output power with decent combining efficiency.

Coherent beam combiningThulium-doped fiber laserHigh-average powerChirped pulse amplifier

Bo Ren、Hongxiang Chang、Can Li、Tao Wang、Kaikai Jin、Jiayi Zhang、Kun Guo、Rongtao Su、Jinyong Leng、Pu Zhou

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College of Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies,National University of Defense Technology,Changsha 410073,China

Nanhu Laser Laboratory,National University of Defense Technology,Changsha 410073,China

Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of High Energy Laser Technology,National University of Defense Technology,Changsha 410073,China

National Key Research and Development Program of ChinaState Key Laboratory of Pulsed Power Laser Technology

2022YFB3606000SKL2020ZR02

2024

光电子前沿(英文版)

光电子前沿(英文版)

CSTPCDEI
影响因子:0.049
ISSN:2095-2759
年,卷(期):2024.17(2)