Abstract

One of the most promising solutions to access high power laser chains is to achieve a coherent combination of a large number of elementary lasers. To interfere constructively, these laser sources should be identical and operate under the same conditions. However, despite these efforts, differential delays appear in the course of time, which must be compensated for. While designing the required correction system, knowing the behavior of a laser as a function of the environmental conditions is not crucial, whereas having access to the differences in the behaviors of identical lasers is, leading to difficulties in modeling. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate how a large set of lasers can be simultaneously analyzed to estimate their variations and optimize a correction system. The X-Coherent Amplified Network laser relies on 61 fiber amplifiers, which are as identical as possible. This state of the art femtosecond digital laser therefore appears as an ideal candidate to study a large number of fiber lasers working under controlled conditions.

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