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19 February 2009Theoretical analysis and quantitative measurements of fiber amplifier coherent combining on a remote surface through turbulence
Coherent beam combining of fiber amplifier arrays is an efficient way to overcome the physical limitations to fiber laser
power scaling. Moreover, coherent combining techniques involving active phase control of the laser emitters offer the
largest versatility, as they can also be used for complex purposes such as beam steering, wavefront shaping or
atmospheric turbulence compensation. We reported last year the first experimental demonstration of coherent combining
of fiber amplifiers on a remote scattering surface, after propagation through turbulent atmosphere, using the
backscattered signal. These results were achieved with a frequency-tagging technique, and appropriate spatial filtering to
lower sensitivity to backward turbulence, and compensate only for onward turbulent propagation. We present now
experimental measurements of turbulence strength and resulting residual phase error. With turbulence compensation
using the backscattered signal for phase control, this error is λ/15 rms. We also present the theoretical analysis of this
experiment, emphasizing how limiting the aperture and not the field of view of the phase difference measurement
subsystem reduces sensitivity to backward turbulence, without decreasing the optical flux on the detector.
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Pierre Bourdon, Veronique Jolivet, Baya Bennai, Laurent Lombard, Didier Goular, Guillaume Canat, Olivier Vasseur, "Theoretical analysis and quantitative measurements of fiber amplifier coherent combining on a remote surface through turbulence," Proc. SPIE 7195, Fiber Lasers VI: Technology, Systems, and Applications, 719527 (19 February 2009); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.808246