Abstract

The beam quality of coherent beam combing (CBC) is significantly affected by the beam array schemes, which are regular hexagon arrays in most research. Here, we propose a bio-inspired Fermat spiral array (FSA) for large-array CBC, for the first time to our knowledge. The far-field distribution and beam quality of CBC with various designed FSAs was investigated numerically and experimentally; the simulated and experimental results agreed with each other. The power in the bucket (PIB) increased with the central space density of the FSA, accompanying by the weakening of the far-field sidelobes. In addition, for the FSA with constant space density, the PIB increased, and sidelobes weakened with the increase of the array filling factor. The FSA could effectively improve the PIB and weaken the sidelobe of the CBC far field by the aperiodic and nonuniform space density arrangement, compared to the regular arrays. These results provide a new approach for the beam arrangement of large-array CBC.

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