Phase locking of nanosecond pulses in a passively Q-switched two-element fiber laser array

Phase locking of Brillouin backscattering Q-switched laser pulses that are much shorter than the round-trip time of the resonators has been demonstrated in a two-element fiber laser array. Despite the stochastic dynamics of nonlinear pulse generation, simultaneous generation and phase locking of short pulses have been achieved by using diffractive coupling and spatial filtering in an external resonator. © 2007 American Institute of Physics. DOI: 10.1063/1.2721390