Long-term Stabilization of the Phase Control Technique of the Stimulated Brillouin Scattering Wave for the Beam Combination Technique

摘要

The beam combination technique using stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) phase conjugate mirrors (PCMs) proposed by one of the authors, H. J. Kong, is a promising one for realization of high energy/power laser system with high repetition rate. However, phase controlling of the SBS waves is essentially required for beam combination system, since the SBS-PCM generates the random phase. Recently, we have achieved successful results for phase locking by the self-generated density modulation method. But it showed a long-term phase fluctuation due to the long-term fluctuation of the density of the liquid SBS medium. To compensate this long-term phase fluctuation, we have designed new phase stabilization system. In this paper, we will introduce this system and show successful experimental results.