The structuring of laser light with non-diffracting vector distributions, optical vortices, or high angular momentum are being increasing exploited. We present a system for the synthesis of these arbitrary intensity and phase profiles through a number of carrier-envelope-phase stabilized coherent frequency and spatial combs. Adjusting the differences between adjacent combs allows synthesis of a combined field which can be structured, directed, and improved in the presence of propagation noise. Additionally, we present a method for the optimization of such systems in free space with a Fourier optics based genetic algorithm that converges to <π/10 accuracy of the initial parameters.
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