Fiber laser development enabled by machine learning: review and prospect

M Jiang, H Wu, Y An, T Hou, Q Chang, L Huang, J Li… - PhotoniX, 2022 - Springer
In recent years, machine learning, especially various deep neural networks, as an emerging
technique for data analysis and processing, has brought novel insights into the development …

Towards ultimate high-power scaling: Coherent beam combining of fiber lasers

H Fathi, M Närhi, R Gumenyuk - Photonics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Fiber laser technology has been demonstrated as a versatile and reliable approach to laser
source manufacturing with a wide range of applicability in various fields ranging from …

First experimental demonstration of coherent beam combining of more than 100 beams

H Chang, Q Chang, J Xi, T Hou, R Su, P Ma… - Photonics …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Coherent beam combining of 107 beams has been demonstrated for the first time to the best
of our knowledge. When the system was in closed loop, the pattern in far-field was stable …

7.1 kW coherent beam combining system based on a seven-channel fiber amplifier array

P Ma, H Chang, Y Ma, R Su, Y Qi, J Wu, C Li… - Optics & Laser …, 2021 - Elsevier
Coherently combining of seven-channel narrow-linewidth, linear-polarized, kW-level power
all-fiber amplifiers has been successfully demonstrated by using the stochastic parallel …

Experimental phase control of a 100 laser beam array with quasi-reinforcement learning of a neural network in an error reduction loop

M Shpakovych, G Maulion, V Kermene, A Boju… - Optics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
An innovative scheme is proposed for the dynamic phase control of a laser beam array. It is
based on a simple neural network included in a phase correction loop that predicts the …

Experimental phase stabilization of a 397-channel laser beam array via image processing in dynamic noise environment

Q Chang, T Hou, J Long, Y Deng… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A phase-locking module is firstly validated for coherent beam combining (CBC) systems of
near 400 laser beams in dynamic noise environment. It is based on a 2-dimensional image …

Deep-learning-based phase control method for tiled aperture coherent beam combining systems

T Hou, Y An, Q Chang, P Ma, J Li, D Zhi… - High Power Laser …, 2019 - cambridge.org
We incorporate deep learning (DL) into tiled aperture coherent beam combining (CBC)
systems for the first time, to the best of our knowledge. By using a well-trained convolutional …

Optical coherent combining of high-power optical amplifiers for free-space optical communications

V Billault, S Leveque, A Maho, M Welch… - Optics Letters, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Highly efficient coherent beam combining (CBC) of two very-high-power optical amplifiers
(VHPOA) with applications to long-range FSO communications such as ground-to-space …

System design for coherent combined massive fiber laser array based on cascaded internal phase control

J Long, R Su, T Hou, Q Chang, M Jiang, H Chang… - Applied Optics, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Coherent beam combining (CBC) of a fiber laser can scale the output power while
maintaining high beam quality. However, phase detection and control remain a challenge …

On-demand phase control of a 7-fiber amplifiers array with neural network and quasi-reinforcement learning

M Shpakovych, G Maulion, A Boju, P Armand… - Photonics, 2022 - mdpi.com
We report a coherent beam combining technique using a specific quasi-reinforcement
learning scheme. A neural network learned by this method enables the tailoring and locking …