A. Flores, B. Anderson, N. Naderi, R. Holten, T. Ehrenreich, K. Rowland, I. Dajani
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Abstract
We present an overview of fiber amplifier power-scaling and beam-combining at AFRL. Nonlinear mitigation and power-scaling results of kW amplifiers is discussed. Here nonlinear suppression is attained through phase modulation and laser gain competition. Subsequently, five kW amplifiers were coherently combined into one 5kW beam.