摘要 |
An optical system for producing high power laser beams has an in/out coupler for receiving an input laser beam from an oscillator. The coupler inputs the beam to a first multiplexer which produces a plurality of beams which are sent to a plurality of fiber amplifiers. A second beam multiplexer receives the thus amplified plurality of beams to combine then into a single amplified beam which is input to a loop PCM (phase conjugate mirror). A multi-mode fiber amplifier is included in the loop PCM. The output of the loop PCM is phase conjugated with the amplified beam input to the loop PCM thereby eliminating any phase and polarization distortions and aberrations occurring in the fiber amplifiers. The output of the loop PCM is supplied in reverse direction through the second multiplexer, the fiber amplifiers and the first multiplexer in that order and then through the in/out coupler as a high power output laser beam.
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