Improved Phase Locking of Laser Arrays with Nonlinear Coupling

Simon Mahler; Matthew L. Goh; Chene Tradonsky; Asher A. Friesem; Nir Davidson

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.133901

Improved Phase Locking of Laser Arrays with Nonlinear Coupling

Simon Mahler^*, Matthew L. Goh, Chene Tradonsky, Asher A. Friesem, Nir Davidson

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An arrangement based on a degenerate cavity laser for forming an array of nonlinearly coupled lasers with an intracavity saturable absorber is presented. More than 30 lasers were spatially phase locked and temporally Q switched. The arrangement with nonlinear coupling was found to be 25 times more sensitive to loss differences and converged five times faster to the lowest loss phase locked state than with linear coupling, thus providing a unique solution to problems that have several near-degenerate solutions.

Original language	English
Article number	133901
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	124
Issue number	13
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.133901
Publication status	Published - 3 Apr 2020

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