@inproceedings{895a5cd92859437aa64619ea080e3147,
title = "Towards coherent combination of 61 fiber amplifiers",
abstract = "The XCAN project aims at the coherent combination of 61 fiber amplifiers in the femtosecond regime. An important intermediate step towards this goal is the implementation of a seven fiber test setup, which allows to address key scientific and technical challenges which might occur in the scaled version of 61 fibers. This work includes the design and characterization of a support unit able to hold 61 fibers with the high precision required for an efficient coherent combination in tiled aperture configuration. This configuration, in combination with an interferometric phase measurement and active phase control, is particularly well suited for the coherent combination of a very large number of beams. Our first preliminary results with seven fibers include a combination efficiency of 30 \% and a residual phase error between two fibers as low as λ/40 rms. Experiments conducted with three fibers in order to evaluate technical improvements revealed an increase of efficiency to 54 \%. The combined beam was temporally compressed to 225 fs, which is Fourier transform limited with respect to the measured spectrum.",
keywords = "Coherent Beam Combining, Femtosecond Lasers, Fiber Lasers",
author = "Anke Heilmann and \{Le Dortz\}, J{\'e}r{\'e}my and Louis Daniault and Ihsan Fsaifes and S{\'e}verine Bellanger and Marie Antier and J{\'e}r{\^o}me Bourderionnet and Christian Larat and Eric Lallier and Eric Durand and Arnaud Brignon and Christophe Simon-Boisson and Chanteloup, \{Jean Christophe\}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018 SPIE.; Fiber Lasers XV: Technology and Systems 2018 ; Conference date: 29-01-2018 Through 01-02-2018",
year = "2018",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1117/12.2287862",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering",
publisher = "SPIE",
editor = "Ingmar Hartl and Carter, \{Adrian L.\}",
booktitle = "Fiber Lasers XV",
}