Phased Fiber Laser Array and Its Applications

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue invites manuscripts that document the recent advances in “Phased Fiber Laser Array and Its Applications”.

Phased Fiber Laser Array (PFLA) is a kind of typical distributed-apertures optical system. By flexibly manipulating the piston and tip/tilt phases of the tiled sub-beams, the PFLA has been gifted the ability of adaptive optical (AO) correction, which holds great potential for applications in laser propagation in atmosphere, free space optical communications (FSOC), optical scanning, and so on. This Special Issue aims to highlight recent advances in principles, system structures, devices, control strategies, coherent combining techniques, and applications of the PFLA.

We will consider theoretical, numerical, and experimental papers that cover, but are not limited to, these topics:

• Coherent combining techniques based on PFLA;
• Wavefront manipulation and AO aberration correction based on PFLA;
• Advances in PFLA’s structures, fiber devices, phase compensators, detectors, and other components;
• Advances in PFLA’s control algorithms, control frameworks, and controller design;
• Progresses in PFLA’s novel applications such as laser propagation in atmosphere, FSOC, and electronically controlled optical scanning.

Prof. Dr. Chao Geng
Dr. Guan Huang
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Photonics is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

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• phased fiber laser array
• coherent beam combination
• distributed apertures
• adaptive fiber-optics collimator
• stochastic parallel gradient descent
• wavefront manipulation
• adaptive optics
• laser propagation in atmosphere
• free space optical communications
• electronically controlled optical scanning