Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 56, Issue 10, 100001(2019)
Principles and Development of Active Polarization Control Technology for Fiber Lasers
Fig. 1. Schematic of polarization pre-compensation
Fig. 2. Schematic of 1.43 kW fiber coherent beam combination experiment
Fig. 3. Far-field images of CBC. (a) Far-field image of tiled-aperture configuration; (b) far-field image of filled-aperture configuration under in-phase control; (c) far-field image of filled-aperture configuration under out-of-phase control
Fig. 4. Structural diagram of 5-channel non-polarization-maintaining CBC system
Fig. 5. Experimental layout of three-dimensional diffractive CBC system
Fig. 6. Block diagram of one channel MOPA
Fig. 7. Schematic of 1×5 DOE beam combining setup
Fig. 8. Schematic of experimental device
Fig. 9. Schematic of polarization synthesis system
Fig. 10. Schematic of two kinds of polarization end compensation schemes
Fig. 11. Schematic of three-way Raman fiber amplifier beam combiner
Fig. 12. Schematic of polarization converting system using axicon
Fig. 13. Experimental setup for testing proposed CPBC with two input beams
Fig. 14. CPBC test system with three input beams
Fig. 15. Structural diagram of CBC system
Fig. 16. Non-polarization-maintaining adaptive polarization conversion system based on SPGD algorithm
Fig. 17. Schematic of experimental active polarization control system for 1.43 kW narrow linewidth fiber amplifier based on SPGD algorithm
Fig. 18. Schematic of polarization control system
Fig. 19. CBC of five-way laser based on CDMA
Fig. 20. CBC of 16 fiber lasers based on cascading phase control
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Yang You, Yunfeng Qi, Bing He, Hui Shen, Xingxing Zou, Meizhong Liu. Principles and Development of Active Polarization Control Technology for Fiber Lasers[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2019, 56(10): 100001
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Received: Oct. 19, 2018
Accepted: Dec. 7, 2018
Published Online: Jul. 4, 2019
The Author Email: Qi Yunfeng (dreamer_7@mail.siom.ac.cn)