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10 February 2011 Coherent combining of low-peak-power pulsed fiber amplifiers with 80-ns pulse duration
Pierre Bourdon, Kevin Cadoret, Laurent Lombard, Adrian Azarian, Guillaume Canat, Baya Bennaï, Didier Goular, Véronique Jolivet, Yves Jaouën, Olivier Vasseur
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Abstract
We investigate the feasibility of pulsed fiber amplifier coherent combining. Therefore, we characterize phase fluctuations in low-peak-power pulsed fiber amplifiers using two different interferometric techniques. These measurements reveal that for low peak-powers, phase fluctuations remain moderate during the pulses. Noticeable phase fluctuations occurring between the pulses can be perfectly controlled using classical continuous-wave-efficient combining techniques. Results of such realization combining two low-peak-power pulsed fiber amplifiers, using classical frequency-tagging coherent combining techniques, are presented. Phase difference measurement is performed between pulses using a small signal leak from the common master oscillator. For the first time to our knowledge, successful coherent combining of two low-peak- power pulsed fiber amplifiers is thereby demonstrated.
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Pierre Bourdon, Kevin Cadoret, Laurent Lombard, Adrian Azarian, Guillaume Canat, Baya Bennaï, Didier Goular, Véronique Jolivet, Yves Jaouën, and Olivier Vasseur "Coherent combining of low-peak-power pulsed fiber amplifiers with 80-ns pulse duration", Proc. SPIE 7914, Fiber Lasers VIII: Technology, Systems, and Applications, 79140W (10 February 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.875165
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KEYWORDS
Fiber amplifiers

Phase measurement

Phase shift keying

Mode locking

Optical amplifiers

Continuous wave operation

Modulation

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