Abstract

Our experiments on passively phase locking two-dimensional arrays of coupled fiber lasers reveal that the average phase locking level of 25 lasers is low (20%–30%) but can exceed 90% in rare brief events. The average phase locking level was found to decrease for a larger number of lasers in the array and to increase with the connectivity of the array.

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