Abstract
This paper describes a filled-aperture coherent beam combining (CBC) system based on locking of optical coherence via single-detector electronic-frequency tagging (LOCSET). The sensing and control architecture is implemented using a field-programmable gate array and high-bandwidth electro-optic phase modulators. The all-fiber optical configuration consists of a narrow linewidth 1560 nm seed laser separated into three channels, each containing 7 W erbium-doped fiber amplifiers. The system was demonstrated experimentally, achieving a total stabilized output power of 20 W, a combination efficiency greater than 95%, and an output RMS phase stability of $\lambda /493$. As this architecture employs an entirely digital sensing and control scheme based on LOCSET, it presents a highly scalable and cost-effective solution for CBC that is wavelength agnostic and can support an arbitrarily large number of channels.
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