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Incoherent Beam Combining of Continuous-Wave and Pulsed Yb-Doped Fiber Amplifiers |
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| Authors: | Schreiber T. Wirth C. Schmidt O. Andersen T.V. Tsybin I. Bohme S. Peschel T. Bruckner F. Clausnitzer T. Roser F. Eberhardt R. Limpert J. Tunnermann A. |
| Affiliation: | Fraunhofer Inst. of Appl. Opt. & Precision Eng., Jena; |
| Abstract: | We review the technique of incoherent beam combining and show experimentally the combination of four continuous wave fiber amplifiers to an average power of 2 kW and four pulsed 2 ns fiber amplifiers to an average power of 187 W (pulse energy 3.7 mJ) using binary dielectric gratings. The scaling potential and limitations are discussed in detail. |
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