Coherent Laser Beam Combining (eBook)

Dr. Arnaud Brignon is Head of the Micro and Nano-Physics Laboratory in Thales Research & Technology, France. He received his Engineering Degree in 1991 from the Institut d?Optique Graduate School, and his PhD in 1996 from the Paris University, France. Arnaud Brignon has authored more than 150 papers (including some 30 invited and tutorials) on laser beam control, two books, and 30 patents. In 1996 he received the Fabry-de-Gramont prize from the French Optical Society, in 2000 the Fresnel prize from the European Physical Society, and in 2001 the Technology Review?s Award from the MIT.

Part A: Coherent combining with active phase control
Engineering of coherently combined, high- power laser systems
Coherent beam combining of fiber amplifiers via LOCSET
Kilowatt coherent beam combining of high- power fiber amplifiers using single- frequency dithering technique
Active coherent combination using hill- climbing based algorithms for fiber and semiconductor amplifiers
Collective coherent cimbining of a large number of fiber amplifiers
Coherent beam combining and atmospheric compensation with adaptive fiber- array systems
Refractive index changes in rare- earth- doped optical fibers and their application for all- fiber coherent beam combining
Coherent beam combining of pulsed fiber amplifiers in the long- pulse regime (nano- to micro- second)
Coherent beam combing in the femtosecond regime
Part B: Passive and self- organized phase locking
Modal theory of coupled resonators for external cavity beam combining
Self- organized fiber beam combining
Coherent combining and phase locking of fiber lasers
Intracavity combining of quantum cascade lasers
Phase conjugate self- organised coherent beam combination
Coherent beam combining using phase controlled stimulated brillouin scattering phase conjugate mirror