Digital holography for coherent fiber beam combining with a co-propagative scheme

Opt Express. 2014 Sep 22;22(19):23310-4. doi: 10.1364/OE.22.023310.

Abstract

We present a technique for passive coherent fiber beam combining based on digital holography. In this method, the phase errors between the fibers are compensated by the diffracted phase-conjugated -1 order of a digital hologram. Unlike previous digital holography technique, the probe beams measuring the phase errors between the fibers are co-propagating with the phase-locked signal beams. This architecture is compatible with the use of multi-stage isolated amplifying fibers. It does not require any phase calculation algorithm and its correction is collective. This concept is experimentally demonstrated with three fibers at 1.55 μm. A residual phase error of λ/20 is measured.

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms*
  • Equipment Design
  • Holography / instrumentation*
  • Image Enhancement*
  • Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / methods*
  • Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted*