Multi-kW, Uncooled Densely Packed Fiber Array for Laser Beam Combining

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作者
Beresnev, L. [1 ]
Flores, A. [2 ]
Holten, R. [2 ]
Valenzuela, A. [1 ]
Taliaferro, A. [1 ]
Schweinsberg, A. [2 ]
Gurton, K. [1 ]
Ligon, D. [1 ]
Williamson, C. [1 ]
Bilyk, S. [1 ]
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[1] CCDC Army Res Lab, 2800 Powder Mill Rd, Adelphi, MD 20783 USA
[2] Air Force Res Lab, 3550 Aberdeen Ave SE, Kirtland AFB, NM 87117 USA
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10.1109/rapid.2019.8864386
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
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An array of seven fiber collimators with transmission similar to 99.9% was tested with 1.99 kW per channel. Truncated radiation was disposed through output collimating lenses by re-directing Gaussian beam tails with interior holey micro-lenses. For range of truncation of 5-29% cooling was not necessary. Beam quality in the far-field M-2 similar to 1.2.
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