1. Highly Scalable Coherent Beam Combining of Femtosecond Fiber Chirped-Pulse Amplifiers
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Ihsan Fsaifes, Eric Durand, Anke Heilmann, Eric Lallier, Jérôme Bourderionnet, Marie Antier, Jean-Christophe Chanteloup, Jérémy Le Dortz, Christian Larat, Severine Bellanger, Louis Daniault, Christophe Simon-Boisson, Arnaud Brignon, Laboratoire pour l'utilisation des lasers intenses (LULI), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-École polytechnique (X)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Thales Research and Technologies [Orsay] (TRT), THALES, Thales Research and Technology [Palaiseau], Thales LAS France, European Project: 654148,H2020,H2020-INFRAIA-2014-2015,LASERLAB-EUROPE(2015), and THALES [France]
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[PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-OPTICS]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Optics [physics.optics] ,Materials science ,business.industry ,(1407090) Ultrafast lasers ,Amplifier ,02 engineering and technology ,01 natural sciences ,Power (physics) ,010309 optics ,020210 optoelectronics & photonics ,Optics ,Fiber Bragg grating ,0103 physical sciences ,Femtosecond ,Phase noise ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,Physics::Accelerator Physics ,Fiber ,business ,Self-phase modulation ,(1403510) Lasers ,Beam (structure) ,OCIS codes: (1403298) Laser beam combining ,fiber - Abstract
International audience; We report on the coherent beam combining of seven fiber chirped-pulse amplifiers using a highly scalable architecture. A combining efficiency of 48% is obtained in linear regime, yielding 71 W pump-limited average power after compression, with a phase noise between two fibers as low as λ/38 RMS. The experiment is operated at high B-integral, with only little impact on the combining efficiency as well as on the temporal and spatial properties of the combined beam.
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- 2018