Coherent combining of a record 48 PM fibres in a phased array configuration is reported. The resulting Strehl ratio degrades by <1 dB and the residual phase error is <λ/30. The use of a 2-D fibre array as the beamformer makes this approach scalable to >1000 fibres.
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