Coherent Tiled 4 Beam Combination by Phase Controlled Stimulated Brillouin Scattering Phase Conjugation Mirrors toward the Practical Laser Fusion Driver

Full text: The coherent beam combination using the phase controlled stimulated Brillouin scattering phase conjugate mirrors (SBS-PCMs) is one of the promising techniques for the practical laser fusion drivers. Its ability has been demonstrated experimentally through this work. The phase fluctuations of the titled beams are less than 1/25 wavelength even when the amplifiers are inserted and operated in the beam combining system, which means that this new technique can be applied to combine the currently available lasers such as 100 J/ns/10 Hz for a real laser driver module whose output energy is greater than 5 kJ/ns/10 Hz. (author)