[WEBINAR] Multiple beam laser combination based on the MPLC technique in the defense field
What are the techniques used by Cailabs to realize high efficiency combiners with an optimal output beam quality?
Overview
Title: Alternative passive fiber coupling system based on Multi-Plane Light Conversion for satellite-to-ground communicationss
Duration: 1 hour
Webinar content
- Presentation by Pierre Bourdon
- Why do we need laser combining techniques for defense applications?
- How does laser combining can relate to the multiplexing approaches developed for telecommunications?
- What are the different techniques available for laser combining? What’s the difference between coherent and incoherent combination?
- What is the state of the art in combining laser sources for defense? What are the best methods and configurations and the best results obtained today?
- What are the issues and limitations of combining techniques?
- What are the main prospects today in the development of combining techniques?
- Presentation by Tangi Le Guennic
- What are the combination solutions (coherent and incoherent) proposed by Cailabs and its technology?
- How to realize high efficiency coherent combiners robust to phase lock and /or intensity fluctuation with an optimal output beam quality?
- How to realize an optimal incoherent beam combiner with the MPLC?
Speakers
Tangi Le Guennic – Head of Customer Project Manager at Cailabs
Tangi Le Guennic, who holds Master’s degrees in materials science and optics, is a project and product manager at Cailabs. Tangi has a strong experience in R&D in developing optical sensors for aircraft systems as well as in industrial vision project management. At Cailabs, he works on the development and commercialization of innovative optical solutions for custom applications (defense, aeronautics, automotive, biomedical…).
Pierre Bourdon – Special advisor on “High power laser for defense applications” at ONERA
Pierre Bourdon holds a Ph.D. degree in physics and optics. After a few years as a researcher on solid-state laser sources and their applications and laser dazzling for the French MoD at Laser, he is now a researcher in the Optics Department, and Special Advisor on High Power Laser for Defense Applications at ONERA, the French Aerospace Lab, Palaiseau, France. His main research interests are fiber lasers and coherent combining techniques.