A high-speed, high-efficiency phase controller for coherent beam combining based on SPGD algorithm
- Institute of Fluid Physics, China Academy of Engineering Physics, Sichuan, Mianyang 621900 (China)
A phase controller for coherent beam combining (CBC) of fibre lasers has been designed and manufactured based on a stochastic parallel gradient descent (SPGD) algorithm and a field programmable gate array (FPGA). The theoretical analysis shows that the iteration rate is higher than 1.9 MHz, and the average compensation bandwidth of CBC for 5 or 20 channels is 50 kHz or 12.5 kHz, respectively. The tests show that the phase controller ensures reliable phase locking of lasers: When the phases of five lasers are locked by the improved control strategy with a variable gain, the energy encircled in the target is increased by 23 times than that in the single output, the phase control accuracy is better than λ/20, and the combining efficiency is 92%. (control of laser radiation parameters)
- OSTI ID:
- 22375929
- Journal Information:
- Quantum Electronics (Woodbury, N.Y.), Vol. 44, Issue 4; Other Information: Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1063-7818
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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