摘要:
In one embodiment, a system includes a master oscillator for generating a primary laser signal. A plurality of amplifiers amplifies a plurality of secondary laser signals and generates a plurality of amplified laser signals. A plurality of actuators adjusts a position, a beam angle, a path length, and a phase of the plurality of amplified laser signals. At least one control module controls the plurality of actuators that adjust the position, the beam angle, the path length, and the phase of the plurality of amplified laser signals. A combiner receives the amplified laser signals to generate a combined laser output signal. At least one filter samples the combined laser output signal to generate a plurality of phase errors as feedback for the control module to control at least one of the position, the beam angle, or the path length for the plurality of amplified laser signals.
摘要:
A pulsed fiber array laser system that has actively stabilized coherent beam combination (CBC) is disclosed. The active stabilization is accomplished using both piston phase control and intra-pulse phase control, allowing a much greater increase in pulse energy. Further stabilization using intra-pulse amplitude control is also disclosed. A chirp profile can be written on the output pulse to enable specific applications. An amplitude profile of the amplifier array may optionally be tailored to match to a reference electrical pulse. Using the current invention, a much smaller number of amplifier chains will be needed to achieve certain pulse energy, resulting in a system with lower complexity, lower cost, smaller size, less weight, and higher reliability.
摘要:
A system includes N master oscillators to generate N master oscillator driving signals. The system includes N splitters to split each of the N master oscillator signals into M coherent signals with M being a positive integer greater than one. A modulator and fiber amplifier stage adjusts the relative phases of the M coherent signals and generates M×N amplified signals. The M×N amplified signals are aggregated into M clusters of N fibers. The system includes M spectral beam combination (SBC) modules to combine each of the M clusters. Each SBC module combines the M×N amplified signals at N wavelengths and generates M tiled output beams. Each SBC module employs a single dimensional (1D) fiber optic array to transmit one cluster of N amplified signals from the M signal clusters and generates one tiled output beam of the M tiled output beams.
摘要:
A multichannel polarization stabilizer including a mixing device responsive to a sample beam and a reference beam that provides an in-phase signal including the mixed sample beam and reference beam having a relative phase of 0° and a quadrature phase signal including the mixed sample beam and reference beam having a relative phase of 90°. The stabilizer also includes a photodetector responsive to the quadrature phase signal that converts the quadrature phase signal to a quadrature phase electrical signal. A polarization demultiplexer circuit receives the quadrature phase electrical signal and measures the amplitude of a frequency tone in the sample beam and provides a polarization amplitude signal. A polarization controller receives the polarization amplitude signal and controls the reference beam to maximize the polarization amplitude signal.
摘要:
This invention discloses optical system and method for writing a refractive index pattern in a light transmissive or light absorbing sample. A light source for providing a short pulse laser beam in the femtosecond range having a low power per unit area is coupled to provide the short pulse beam to a diffractive optical element. A curved mirror collects light transmitted through or reflected from the diffractive optical element preserves an image relating to characteristics of the diffractive optical element encoded within the collected light, and directs the collected light in wavelength independent manner while preserving the image of the diffractive optical element encoded within the collected light. A rod lens demagnifies the image within the light received from the curved mirror so as to increase its power per unit area when directed to the light transmissive or absorbing sample to be permanently impressed therein.
摘要:
A multichannel polarization stabilizer including a mixing device responsive to a sample beam and a reference beam that provides an in-phase signal including the mixed sample beam and reference beam having a relative phase of 0° and a quadrature phase signal including the mixed sample beam and reference beam having a relative phase of 90°. The stabilizer also includes a photodetector responsive to the quadrature phase signal that converts the quadrature phase signal to a quadrature phase electrical signal. A polarization demultiplexer circuit receives the quadrature phase electrical signal and measures the amplitude of a frequency tone in the sample beam and provides a polarization amplitude signal. A polarization controller receives the polarization amplitude signal and controls the reference beam to maximize the polarization amplitude signal.
摘要:
In one embodiment, a system includes a master oscillator for generating a primary laser signal. A plurality of amplifiers amplifies a plurality of secondary laser signals and generates a plurality of amplified laser signals. A plurality of actuators adjusts a position, a beam angle, a path length, and a phase of the plurality of amplified laser signals. At least one control module controls the plurality of actuators that adjust the position, the beam angle, the path length, and the phase of the plurality of amplified laser signals. A combiner receives the amplified laser signals to generate a combined laser output signal. At least one filter samples the combined laser output signal to generate a plurality of phase errors as feedback for the control module to control at least one of the position, the beam angle, or the path length for the plurality of amplified laser signals.
摘要:
An optical fiber launcher assembly can include a low precision fiber array that outputs a plurality of optical signals from a given side that are input into an opposing side. The optical fiber launcher assembly can also include a corrective optic aligned with and spaced apart from the low precision fiber array. The plurality of optical signals output from the low precision array to the corrective optic have a given trajectory and optical signals output from the corrective optic have a substantially parallel trajectory different from the given trajectory.
摘要:
A pulsed fiber array laser system that has actively stabilized coherent beam combination (CBC) is disclosed. The active stabilization is accomplished using both piston phase control and intra-pulse phase control, allowing a much greater increase in pulse energy. Further stabilization using intra-pulse amplitude control is also disclosed. A chirp profile can be written on the output pulse to enable specific applications. An amplitude profile of the amplifier array may optionally be tailored to match to a reference electrical pulse. Using the current invention, a much smaller number of amplifier chains will be needed to achieve certain pulse energy, resulting in a system with lower complexity, lower cost, smaller size, less weight, and higher reliability.
摘要:
The present invention provides systems and methods for spectral beam combination by applying a spatial chirp to each of a plurality of input beamlets using a respective plurality of dispersive elements and combining the spatially-chirped beamlets into a single collimated output beam using a dispersive element configured to remove the spatial chirp. In an embodiment, each dispersive element is a grating combined with a lens that is confocal to the grating and also confocal to a Fourier plane upon which a transverse distribution of beam spectral components is produced. A final lens-grating pair includes a lens and a grating, where the lens is confocal to the grating and also confocal to the Fourier plane.