| 摘要 |
<p>A phase control system configured for application with coherent fiber amplifier arrays is presented. The invention includes a light source (100), which conveys laser radiation to a fiber coupler (102), and thereby to a plurality of fibers (104) that function as amplifiers. The apparatus controls the plurality of amplifier pumps (106), thus, in turn controlling the amplitude and phase of the beams of laser radiation from the light source (100). The aggregate of fibers comprises a fiber array (108), with each of the fibers (104) terminated by a device that collimates the output of each fiber into a beam substantially parallel to the other beams in the array. The array (108) used with the present invention can encompass any configuration of N by M fibers, such as, for example, a hexagonally arranged configuration.</p> |
