Recently, the improvement of diode pumping in solid state lasers and the development of double clad fiber lasers have allowed to maintain excellent laser beam quality with single mode fibers. However, the fiber output power if often limited below a power damage threshold. Coherent laser beam combining (CLBC) brings a solution to these limitations by identifying the most efficient architectures and allowing for excellent spectral and spatial quality. This knowledge will become critical for the design of the next generation high–power lasers and is of major interest to many industrial, environmental, defence and scientific applications. The purpose of this book is to present the more recent concepts of coherent beam combining by the world leaders in the field. After a general presentation of laser beam combining and associated challenges, the book will review functionalities and techniques in details with an emphasis on practical implementations. Thus both scientific and engineering aspects are addressed. . INDICE: Foreword 1.Introduction : Overview of Coherent Laser Beam Combining; Arnaud Brignon; Thales Research & Technology, France PART 1 : Active phase control 2.High Power fiber combining with the LOCSET technique Angel Flores et al.; Air Force Research Laboratory, USA 3.Engineering of Coherently Combined, High–Power Arrays of Laser Amplifiers; Gregory D. Goodno and Joshua E. Rothenberg; Northrop Grumman, USA 4.Active coherent combination using hill–climbing based algorithms for fiber and semiconductor amplifiers Shawn Redmond, T.Y. Fan, Antonio Sanchez–Rubio, Charles Yu, and Dan Murphy; MIT, USA 5.Coherent beam combination with single frequency dithering technique; Yanxing Ma, Pu Zhou, Xiaolin Wang, Haotong Ma, Xiaojun Xu, Lei Si, Zejin Liu, and Yijun Zhao; National University of Defense Technique, Changsha, China 6.Advanced Techniques for Collective Coherent Combining of a Large Number of Fibers; Cindy Bellanger, Jérome Bourderionnet, Jérome Primot, and Arnaud Brignon; Thales Research & Technology, Office National d?Études et Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA) 7.Refractive index changes in rare–earth–doped optical fibers and their applications for all–fiber coherent beam combining; Andrei Fotiadi1, Oleg Antipov, Maxim Kuznetsov and Patrice Mégret; Université de Mons, Belgium; Institute of Applied Physics of Russian Academy of Science, Russia 8.Phase Locking of Fiber Amplifiers in the Pulsed Regime; Laurent Lombard, Pierre Bourdon and Guillaume Canat; Office National d?Études et Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA), France 9.Coherent Beam Combining in the femtosecond Regime Marc Hanna, Louis Daniault, Dimitris N. Papadopoulos, Frédéric Druon, and Patrick Georges; Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l?Institut d?Optique, CNRS, Université Paris–Sud, France 10.Wavefront control and atmospheric compensation with adaptive Fiber–Array Systems; Mikhail A. Vorontsov, Thomas Weyrauch, Leonid A. Beresnev, Svetlana Lachinova, Gary W. Carhart, Jiang Liu, Andrey Rostov University of Dayton, USA PART 2 : Passive and self–organized phase locking 11.Self–Organized Fiber Beam Combining; Vincent Kermène, Agnès Desfarges–Berthelemot, and Alain Barthélémy; Xlim Institut de Recherche, Université de Limoges, CNRS, France 12.Coherent combining and phase locking of fiber lasers Asher A. Friesem, Nir Davidson, Micha Nixon, and Moti Fridman; Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 13.Intracavity combining of quantum cascade lasers Guillaume Bloom, Christian Larat, and Eric Lallier; Thales Research & Technology, France 14.Phase Conjugate Self–Organized Beam Combining; Peter Shardlow, and Mike Damzen; Imperial College, UK 15.Beam Combining using Stimulated Brillouin Scattering H. J. Kong et al.; KAIST, Korea 16.Conclusion: Future perspectives; Arnaud Brignon; Thales Research & Technology, France
- ISBN: 978-3-527-41150-4
- Editorial: Wiley VCH
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 498
- Fecha Publicación: 04/09/2013
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés