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A new coherent polarization beam combination (CPBC) architecture was employed to combine four amplified beams and produce over 25 W of coherent output with 94% efficiency and nearly diffraction-limited beam quality. The individual beams were produced by a fiber master oscillator power amplifier system and their phases were controlled and locked using servo-controlled phase modulators. The CPBC approach relies on a coherent superposition of orthogonal polarization states and allows the combination of an arbitrary number of beams with arbitrary power ratios.

Four actively phase-locked beams produced by fiber amplifiers in a master oscillator power amplifier (MOPA) configuration were coherently combined in a glass capillary re-imaging waveguide producing more than 100 W of coherent output with 80% combining efficiency and excellent beam quality. The beam combiner components maintained a temperature below 30 degrees C with no external cooling at >100 W of combined power.

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