Optics and Precision Engineering, Volume. 17, Issue 8, 1845(2009)

Coherent combination of Michelson cavity fiber lasers

WANG Hui-sheng*... LIU Yang, WEI Shang-fang, DING Fang-zheng, MI Chao-wei and CHENG Yong |Show fewer author(s)
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    A phase-locking method for two individual fiber lasers is proposed to realize high power and high brightness fiber laser outputs.By taking a beam splitter with reflectivity of 50% at 45° as a interferomtric element to construct the Michelson cavity,two optical fiber lasers can realize coherent enhancement at output ends,so that the coherent combination output of two laser beams is complemented.The phase-locking principle is analyzed in detail and the phase-locking of two individual double clad fiber lasers is experimentally demonstrated.Experiments obtain a coherent combination laser output of 360 mW,and a power combination efficiency about 73%.Moreover,the on-axis power intensity is greatly enhanced.The phase-locking approach is simple and no power-limitation optical components,so the drawbacks of fiber couplers are eliminated and the output power can be further up scaled.These results show the method is one of the most promising phase-locking technologies in the high-power fiber laser coherent combination field.

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    WANG Hui-sheng, LIU Yang, WEI Shang-fang, DING Fang-zheng, MI Chao-wei, CHENG Yong. Coherent combination of Michelson cavity fiber lasers[J]. Optics and Precision Engineering, 2009, 17(8): 1845

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    Received: Oct. 29, 2008

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Oct. 28, 2009

    The Author Email: Hui-sheng WANG (gdyjs@263.net)

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    CSTR:32186.14.

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