ARL Eye Safer Fiber Laser Testbed Lab View Automation and Control

Abstract

The Eye Safer Fiber Laser Testbed is the state-of-the-art 1.2 kW, 1530-nm diode pumped fiber laser facility under construction at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL). The laser testbed consists of 40 fiber-coupled diode laser modules, a high power multimode fiber combiner, 20 power supplies, and a water chiller. It is required that all this high power equipment to operate together to produce laser output. A LabView program and control electronics has been developed and built for the testbed auto operation, monitoring, and testing. In addition, laser interlock safety for the kilowatt power operation has also been implemented in the emergency shutdown automation process.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2013
Accession Number
ADA585978

Entities

People

  • Arayut Amnuaysirikul
  • Jun Zhang

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Automation
  • Bragg Gratings
  • Fiber Bragg Gratings
  • Laser Diodes
  • Lasers
  • Light Amplifiers
  • Military Research
  • Monitoring
  • Network Topology
  • Optical Equipment
  • Optical Fiber Lasers
  • Power Supplies

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Aviation Safety Risk Assessment.
  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.
  • Optical Physics and Photonics.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Microelectromechanical Systems