Coherent beam combination of four holmium amplifiers with phase control via a direct digital synthesizer chip

Opt Express. 2018 Mar 19;26(6):6715-6723. doi: 10.1364/OE.26.006715.

Abstract

We present the coherent beam combination of four 2100 nm holmium amplifiers with their phase controlled through acousto-optic modulators driven by the RF output of direct digital synthesizer chips. Phase alignment was achieved through the use of a field programmable gate array based stochastic parallel gradient descent algorithm.