1.School of Optics and Photonics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China 2.Southwest Institute of Technical Physics, Chengdu 610041, China
Fund Project:Project supported by the National Defense Pre-Research Foundation of China (Grant No. 301040310)
Received Date:20 June 2019
Accepted Date:30 July 2019
Available Online:27 November 2019
Published Online:05 December 2019
Abstract:The beam quality of array lasers which propagate in atmosphere will degrade in far-field. Therefore, the ultimate efficiency of combined lasers will be affected if no compensation measure is taken in some typical systems such as high energy system. Based on the model of array lasers with incoherent combination, laser propagation in atmosphere is simulated by generating a random atmospheric turbulence phase screen to modulate the phase of the laser beam. The distorted wavefront of atmospheric turbulence is divided according to the array distribution. The phase generated by tilt aberration coefficient which is solved by the method of fitting sub-wavefront data is eliminated in the phase of sub-beam, which simulates the process of correcting tilt aberration. The simulation results show that comparing with the case of tilt aberration, the power in the bucket (PIB) and the Strehl rate (SR) of combined lasers focusing in far-field are improved when the tilt aberration influenced by the same atmospheric turbulence phase screen is corrected. At the same time, coherence length ranging from 4 cm to 45 cm is used to characterize atmospheric turbulence of different intensities. At each coherent length, the PIB and SR are calculated when the distances of propagation of lasers are 2 km and 3 km, separately. The simulation results show that although PIB and SR before and after tilt aberration are corrected, they become worse with the decrease of coherence length, and PIB and SR are improved more obviously when tilt aberration is corrected in stronger turbulence. An experiment in the case of 2 km is carried out by using a prototype of incoherent combination, and the data are obtained by measuring the focused spot at the target. The measurement results confirm that the correcting of tilt aberration can improve the beam quality of array lasers with incoherent combination in far-field. In summary, the research conducted in this work can obtain tilt aberration accurately and the corresponding method of correction is easy to implement, which can provide supporting data for improving the performances high energy laser systems. Keywords:incoherent combination/ laser propagation/ atmospheric turbulence/ tilt aberration correction
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2.1.研究方法
采取非相干合成方式的高能激光系统的示意图如图1所示, 每一束激光会先经一个二维指向快反镜调制实现同轴, 然后通过内光路系统和发射望远镜系统后传输聚焦至目标处. 信标激光器实时对目标照射, 将带有大气湍流畸变波前信息的照射回光沿阵列激光发射方向的反向传输至波前传感器中, 探测波前依据阵列激光孔径的相对位置分割为相同数目的子波前, 计算每个子波前的倾斜像差系数并转换为角度值$\delta $, 则对应的指向快反镜通过偏摆$ - \delta $的角度范围即可校正光束的倾斜像差. 图 1 高能激光系统模型 Figure1. Model of high energy system.