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A highly efficient summing of mutually coherent beams (channels) into a single beam with the same divergence and aperture (an inverse acoustooptic problem) is realized via diffraction in a Bragg cell. The multibeam field to be converged is formed as a result of the diffraction (splitting) of a single laser beam. Theoretical and experimental evidence is obtained for the fact that the repeated diffraction can provide a highly efficient (up to 100%) reconstruction of beam with initial parameters. The experiments are performed with a single-mode laser radiation at 0.63 μm and multimode radiation at 0.96 μm. The virtually attained summing efficiency is on the order of 70%. The factors that act to diminish the experimental efficiency below the predicted value, the ways to raise the efficiency, and possible applications of the results of this study are discussed.
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Original Russian Text © S.N. Antonov, A.V. Vainer, V.V. Proklov, Yu.G. Rezvov, 2007, published in Zhurnal Tekhnicheskoĭ Fiziki, 2007, Vol. 77, No. 5, pp. 75–80.
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Antonov, S.N., Vainer, A.V., Proklov, V.V. et al. Inverse acoustooptic problem: Coherent summing of optical beams into a single optical channel. Tech. Phys. 52, 610–615 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S106378420705012X
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