A informação sobre o tipo de herança de um caráter considerado para fins de seleção é de extrema importância para o sucesso dos programas de melhoramento. O caráter senescência retardada, usualmente chamado de stay-green, tem sido relacionado em diversas culturas à tolerância a estresses abióticos, principalmente ao estresse devido à seca. Embora a maioria dos híbridos de milho comerciais sejam stay-green, as informações sobre o seu tipo de herança são muito limitadas. Assim, este trabalho teve como objetivo estudar a herança do caráter stay-green em milho tropical. O material genético utilizado incluiu 55 linhagens de diversas origens, a fim de representar a variabilidade genética em milho tropical. Foram realizados cruzamentos dialélicos parciais, onde 50 linhagens foram cruzadas com outras 5 linhagens utilizadas como testadoras, originando 250 cruzamentos. Os 250 cruzamentos e seis híbridos comerciais foram avaliados em 8 ambientes no delineamento de látice simples 16x16 com duas repetições. O caráter stay-green foi avaliado em cinco plantas competitivas por parcela, 120 dias após a semeadura, através de uma escala de notas visual de 1 a 5, onde a nota 1 se referia às plantas verdes e a nota 5 às plantas secas. Foi necessário tomar dados de florescimento feminino para utilizá-los como covariável nas análises estatísticas e corrigir as diferenças de maturação entre os cruzamentos. A análise de variância dialélica foi realizada de acordo com o método 4 do modelo 1 de Griffing (1956), adaptado para dialelos parciais em múltiplos ambientes. A capacidade geral de combinação (CGC), tanto para as linhagens como para os testadores, e a capacidade específica de combinação (CEC) foram altamente significativas )01,0(<=P, mostrando que tanto a CGC como a CEC contribuíram significativamente para a expressão do caráter. Porém a contribuição da CGC foi de 69,06% e a da CEC foi de 30,94% para a variação entre cruzamentos, indicando que os efeitos aditivos, relacionados à CGC, são mais importantes que os efeitos não aditivos (dominância e epistasia), que são relacionados à CEC, na variação dos cruzamentos. Tanto a CGC como a CEC interagiram significativamente com o ambiente, evidenciando que estes parâmetros não são consistentes nos diversos ambientes. Então, a seleção para o caráter stay-green deve ser baseada em médias de experimentos avaliados com repetições em diversos ambientes. / Information on the inheritance of traits to be selected is of paramount importance for the success of breeding programs. The trait delayed senescence, usually named \"stay-green\" trait, has been related to tolerance to abiotic stresses, mainly drought stress, in several crop species. Although the majority of commercial maize hybrids are \"stay-green\", limited information are available on its inheritance. Thus, this research was conducted to study the inheritance of the stay-green trait in tropical maize. The genetic material included 55 inbred lines from several sources to represent the genetic variation of tropical maize. Fifty inbred lines were crossed to 05 inbreds as testers following the partial diallel cross design, giving rise to 250 single crosses. The crosses and six commercial hybrids, 256 entries, were evaluated at eight environments using a 16 x 16 lattice design with two replications per environment. The stay-green trait was recorded 120 days after sowing, in five competitive plants per plot, following a visual note scale, i.e., from 1 to 5, where 1 refers to green plants and 5 to no-green plants. Also, the trait days to mid-silking was recorded and used as covariate to correct for differences of maturing among crosses. The analysis of variance of the diallel crosses was computed following the method 4 model 1 of Griffing (1956) extended to multiple environments. The general combining ability (GCA) for both the inbreds and the testers, and the specific combining ability (SCA) were all highly significant (P<=0.01), showing that GCA as well as SCA contribute significantly for the expression of the trait. However, the contribution of the GCA was 69.06% and of the SCA was 30.94% for the variation among the crosses, indicating that the additive effects, which are related to GCA, are more important than the non-additive effects (dominance and epistasis), which are related to SCA, for the variation of the crosses. Both GCA and SCA interacted significantly with the environments, showing that these parameters were not consistent across the environments. Thus, selection for the stay-green trait should be based on the means of experiments evaluated in several environments.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The aim of this work was to estimate the General and Specific Combining Ability of basil, analyzing yield components and the main chemical compounds of the essential oil. The experiment was conducted at the Research Farm "Campus Rural da UFS", located in the São Cristóvão county, Sergipe. Four cultivars with different chemical compositions were chosen to realize diallel crosses. The F1 seeds and the parents were planted in field using a complete randomized block design, with three replications. The data were submitted to the diallel analysis of Griffing model 2 and the means were grouped using the Scott-Knott test (p ≤ 0.05). The following characteristics were evaluated: plant height, crown diameter, length and width of leaves, dry weight of leaves, essential oil content and yield, and the content of the main chemical compounds. The analysis of variance for the combining ability showed that the General Combining Ability (GCA) effects presented significant differences and that the Special Combining Ability (SCA) effects of the crosses were significant, except for the length and width of leaves. For almost all characters both additive and non-additive effects influenced the performance of hybrids. / Este trabalho teve como objetivo estimar a Capacidade Geral e Específica de Combinação de manjericão, analisando o teor de óleo essencial e dos principais compostos químicos no óleo essencial. O experimento foi conduzido na Estação Experimental "Campus Rural da UFS", localizado no município de São Cristóvão, Sergipe. Quatro cultivares com composição química divergentes foram escolhidas e realizou-se os cruzamentos dialélicos. As sementes F1 e os parentais foram plantadas em blocos casualizados, com três repetições. Os dados foram submetidos à análise dialélica de Griffing modelo 2 e as médias foram agrupadas pelo teste de Skott-Knott (p<0,05). Avaliou-se as seguintes características: altura de planta, diâmetro de copa, comprimento e largura de folha, massa seca de folha, teor e rendimento de óleo essencial e o teor dos principais constituintes químicos. A análise de variância para a capacidade de combinação mostrou que os efeitos da Capacidade Geral de Combinação (CGC) apresentou diferenças significativas e que os efeitos da Capacidade Específica de Combinação (CEC) dos cruzamentos foram significativos, exceto para comprimento e largura de folha. Para quase todas as características ambos, efeitos aditivos e não aditivos, influenciaram a performance dos híbridos.

ITC/USA 2010 Conference Proceedings / The Forty-Sixth Annual International Telemetering Conference and Technical Exhibition / October 25-28, 2010 / Town and Country Resort & Convention Center, San Diego, California / This work explores aeronautical telemetry communication performance with the SOQPSK- TG ARTM waveforms when frequency-selective multipath corrupts received information symbols. A multi-antenna equalization scheme is presented where each antenna's unique multipath channel is equalized using a pilot-aided optimal linear minimum mean-square error filter. Following independent channel equalization, a maximal ratio combining technique is used to generate a single receiver output for detection. This multi-antenna equalization process is shown to improve detection performance over maximal ratio combining alone.

International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 30-November 02, 1995 / Riviera Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada / In an effort to determine a more accurate characterization of the multipath fading effects on telemetry signals, the BYU telemetering group is implementing an inexpensive data acquisition system to measure these effects. It is designed to measure important signals in a diversity combining system. The received RF envelope, AGC signal, and the weighting signal for each beam, as well as the IRIG B time stamp will be sampled and stored. This system is based on an 80x86 platform for simplicity, compactness, and ease of use. The design is robust and portable to accommodate measurements in a variety of locations including aircraft, ground, and mobile environments.

ITC/USA 2015 Conference Proceedings / The Fifty-First Annual International Telemetering Conference and Technical Exhibition / October 26-29, 2015 / Bally's Hotel & Convention Center, Las Vegas, NV / There is great potential in using Best Source Selectors (BSS) to improve link availability in aeronautical telemetry applications. While the general notion that diverse data sources can be used to construct a consolidated stream of "better" data is well founded, there is no standardized means of determining the quality of the data streams being merged together. Absent this uniform quality data, the BSS has no analytically sound way of knowing which streams are better, or best. This problem is further exacerbated when one imagines that multiple vendors are developing data quality estimation schemes, with no standard definition of how to measure data quality. In this paper, we present measured performance for a specific Data Quality Metric (DQM) implementation, demonstrating that the signals present in the demodulator can be used to quickly and accurately measure the data quality, and we propose test methods for calibrating DQM over a wide variety of channel impairments. We also propose an efficient means of encapsulating this DQM information with the data, to simplify processing by the BSS. This work leads toward a potential standardization that would allow data quality estimators and best source selectors from multiple vendors to interoperate.

ITC/USA 2011 Conference Proceedings / The Forty-Seventh Annual International Telemetering Conference and Technical Exhibition / October 24-27, 2011 / Bally's Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada / A novel type-II hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) algorithm using adaptive modulations and bit-interleaved coded modulation (BICM) is presented. The algorithm uses different optimized puncturing patterns for different transmissions of the same data packet. The proposed approach exploits mapping diversity through BICM with iterative decoding. The modulation order is changed in each transmission to keep the number of symbols transmitted constant. We present new bit error rate and frame error rate analytical results for the proposed technique showing good agreement with simulation results. We compare the throughput performance of our proposed HARQ technique with a reference HARQ technique that uses different mapping arrangements but keeps the modulation order fixed. By using optimized puncturing patterns and adaptive modulations, our method provides significantly better throughput performance over the reference HARQ method in the whole signalto- noise ratio (SNR) range, and achieves a gain of 12 dB in the medium SNR region.

Le standard LTE permet l’accès au très haut débit mobile et évolue afind’adresser les applications embarquées de type objets connectés. Mais dans la perspectived’un émetteur-récepteur LTE fabriqué dans une technologie CMOS faible-coût ethautement intégrable, l’amplificateur de puissance (PA) reste le seul bloc actif non intégréà ce jour. De plus, l’utilisation de modulations en quadrature oblige la conceptiond’amplificateurs très linéaires, générant une consommation statique plus importante.Dans ce contexte, ces travaux de thèse portent sur la recherche de composants etde circuits permettant d’atteindre de fortes puissances de sortie et de résoudre le compromisentre la linéarité et la consommation du PA. Deux axes de travail sont identifiéset développés dans cette thèse. Le premier axe porte sur l’utilisation d’un transistor depuissance intégrable en technologie CMOS. Trois cellules de puissance basées sur ce composantsont présentées, de l’étude théorique aux résultats de mesure. Dans le second axede recherche, ce transistor est intégré dans une architecture avancée de PA entièrementréalisée en CMOS. Une méthode de conception de transformateurs intégrés est égalementdéveloppée. Le PA proposé est reconfigurable pour adresser les différents besoinsimposés par le standard LTE : puissance de sortie, haute linéarité et faible consommation. / The LTE standard has been intended for mobile communications. Focusingnot only on higher data rate, LTE now aims at an implementation for the Internetof Things (IoT). The main challenge, in the perspective of a LTE front-end fully manufacturedin a low-cost and high integration level CMOS technology, remains the design ofpower amplifiers (PA). Furthermore, the use of complex quadrature modulation resultsin stringent linearity requirements resulting in an important quiescent dc consumption.In this context, this work focuses on the research of devices and circuits generatinghigh output power and solving the compromise between linearity and consumption ofthe PA. Two strands of work are identified and developed in this thesis. The first oneuses a power transistor available in CMOS technology. Three power cells based on thisdevice are proposed, with detailed theoretical and experimental results. In the secondone, this transistor is then used in a fully-integrated CMOS PA. A design methodologyfor integrated transformers is also presented. The proposed fully-integrated PA is reconfigurablein order to address the main LTE challenges : output power, high linearity andlow consumption.

Visando avaliar o potencial de populações segregantes de trigo obtidas de parentais portadores de características agronômicas contrastantes, quanto ao comprimento da raiz primária, produção de grãos e caracteres agronômicos; estimar a herdabilidade no sentido amplo e restrito para populações F2 obtidas, além das associações das características em estudo; confirmar os genitores mais promissores para utilização em programas de melhoramento de trigo e estimar a capacidade geral e específica de combinação dos genótipos de trigo, foram efetuados cruzamentos, em forma dialélica, entre quatro genótipos de trigo: BH-1146, Anahuac M-1, IAC-287/IAC-24 M-1 e MONS/ALDS// IAC-24 M-3. Foram obtidos híbridos em geração F1 e F2 e os retrocruzamentos RC1 e RC2, que foram avaliados quanto ao comprimento da raiz em solução nutritiva, conforme Camargo e Ferreira Filho (2005a). Após a medição das raízes, as plântulas foram transplantadas para telado do Centro de Grãos e Fibras do IAC sob delineamento de blocos ao acaso, com 28 tratamentos (os 4 parentais, os 6 F1s, F2s, RC1s e RC2s), com 6 repetições. Avaliaram-se os caracteres comprimento da raiz primária, altura das plantas, comprimento da espiga, número de espiguetas por espiga, grãos por espiga, grãos por espigueta, massa de cem grãos, comprimento do internódio da raque, número de espigas por planta, produção de grãos por planta e florescimento. Para análise dialélica foi utilizado o Modelo de Griffing (1956) Os valores estimados para a herdabilidade em sentido amplo, para os seis cruzamentos, foram altas para altura de plantas; médios, na maioria dos cruzamentos, para comprimento da raiz, comprimento da espiga, números de espigas por planta e grãos por espiga, produção de grãos por planta e florescimento; de médios a altos para comprimento do internódio da raque e número de espiguetas por espiga e de médios a baixos para massa de cem grãos e número de grãos por espigueta. Esses valores indicaram que grande parte das variações encontradas foi de origem genética. As estimativas de herdabilidade no sentido restrito (h2r) mostraram grande variação de magnitude nos diferentes cruzamentos para todos os caracteres avaliados. Ressaltou-se o cruzamento P1/P4, com parentais divergentes, com elevados valores de herdabilidade no sentido restrito. Altos valores de h2r foram estimados para altura de plantas em todos os cruzamentos, indicando que a seleção será efetiva nas primeiras gerações segregantes. As correlações fenotípicas revelaram haver uma tendência da seleção de plantas com maior comprimento da raiz primária estar associada com maior produção de grãos por planta e maior precocidade para o florescimento. BH-1146 demonstrou ser fonte genética de tolerância à seca no estádio inicial da cultura do trigo. As análises dialélicas corroboraram os resultados dos ensaios de genótipos, destacando os genótipos P4 como fonte de redução de altura das plantas e o P1 como fonte de aumento do comprimento da raiz; para produção de grãos evidenciaram-se P1 e P2 com elevados valores de capacidade geral de combinação. Detectaram-se efeitos significativos da CEC e CGC, evidenciando a ação de genes preponderantemente aditiva e de dominância na manifestação dos na maioria dos caracteres estudados / Diallel crossing was made with four wheat genotypes: BH-1146, Anahuac M-1, IAC-287/IAC-24 M-1 and MONS/ALDS// IAC-24 M-3, bearing agronomically contrasting characteristics, to evaluate the potential of segregating populations of wheat obtained from parents bearing contrasting agronomic characteristics for primary root length, grain yield and agronomic characteristics; to estimate the herdability, in the broad and narrow senses, for F2 obtained populations in addition to the association of the traits under study; to confirm the more promising parents for use in wheat improvement programs and to estimate the general and specific combining abilities of wheat genotypes. Hybrid were obtained in F1 and F2 generation of RC1 and RC2 backcrossing, which were evaluated for their root length in nutrient solution, according to Camargos and Ferreira Filhos method (2005a). After root measuring, plantules were transplanted to screens of the IAC Center for Grain and Fibers in blocks at random, with 28 treatments (4 parents, the 6 F1s, the 6 F2s, the 6 RC1s and the 6 RC2s), with 6 repetitions. Characteristics such as primary root length, plant length, and spike length, number of spikelet per spike, grains per spike, grains per spikelet, 100 grain weight, length of the rachis internode heigth, number of spike per plant, grain yield per plant and flowering were evaluated. The Griffing Model (1956) was used for the diallel analysis. Herdability estimates were obtained. The herdability estimates in the broad sense for the six crossings were high for plant height in all of them; moderate, in most of the crossings for root growth, spike heigth, number of spikes per plant and grain per spike, grain yield per plant and flowering; were moderate to high for rachis internode height and the number of spikelet per spike and moderate to low for 100 grain weight per spikelet. These values indicated that a large part of the variability found was of genetic origin. Herdability estimates in the narrow sense showed large variability in magnitude in the different crossings for the studied traits. P1/P4 crossing with different parents showed high herdability in the narrow sense. High herdability values in the narrow sense were estimated for plant heigth in all crossings, indicating that the selection will be effective for the first segregating generations. Phenotype correlations showed a tendency for the selection of plants with larger heigth for the primary root being associated with a higher grain yield per plant and higher early flowering. BH-1146 proved to be a genetic source of tolerance to drought in the initial stage of the wheat breeding. Diallel analysis confirm the results of experiments with genotypes, showing high values in the combining ability of P4 genotypes as being the source of reduction of plant heigth, and P1 as source of the increase in root length; P1 and P2 were found with high values of gi for the production of grain. CEC and CGC, showed the action of genes of major aditive effects and prevalence of the traits studies

O maxixeiro (Cucumis anguria L.) é uma cultura de grande importância nas regiões Norte e Nordeste do Brasil. No entanto, a maior parte da produção brasileira desta hortaliça é obtida sem o uso de genótipos e tecnologias adequadas. Os objetivos desse trabalho foram: Fazer a caracterização fenotípica de acessos locais e comerciais de maxixe da região sul do Tocantins, avaliar sua capacidade de combinação e a ação gênica. O experimento foi conduzido em delineamento de blocos casualizados com três repetições. Os tratamentos foram nove genótipos de maxixe e suas combinações híbridas obtidas em cruzamento dialélico de acordo à metodologia proposta por Gardner e Eberhart, totalizando quarenta e cinco tratamentos. Foram coletados frutos de cultivos familiares na região sul do Tocantins e também foram adquiridos duas cultivares comerciais (Feltrin® e Topseed®), posteriormente foi multiplicado as sementes dos frutos do município de Gurupi e efetuados cruzamentos. Foram caracterizados nove genótipos com seleções de suas partes vegetativas e reprodutivas, assim como avaliarem sua ação gênica em relação às estimativas de efeitos de variedade e heterose e de seus híbridos. Avaliou-se a sua capacidade de combinação e as médias de variância dos frutos para diâmetro do fruto (mm), comprimento do fruto (mm), peso médio do fruto (g) e produtividade (tonha-1). A caracterização vegetativa dos genótipos mostrou uma leve separação entre os genótipos, principalmente nas características relacionadas ao tamanho foliar. Nas características reprodutivas, porém, não houve separação entre os genótipos e cultivares. Algumas características possuem correlação mais forte que outras, como o cultivar comercial Topseed®, que se distingue dos demais cultivares na PCA de caracteres vegetativos. No resumo de análises de variações nas características de diâmetro, comprimento, peso e firmeza do fruto foram identificados diferenças significativas, na característica de produtividade tivessem efeitos não significantes nas fontes de variações para variedade, heterose média e heterose de variedade. Na estimativa de efeito de variedade, as características diâmetro dos frutos (36,21); comprimento do fruto (45,29) e peso do fruto (32,86) o genótipo MAXGU#02 foi superior, e na característica firmeza do fruto (133,80 N) e produtividade (15,61) o genótipo MAXGU#01. Na estimativa de efeito de heterose de variedade as características de diâmetro do fruto (47,64); comprimento do fruto (80,43); peso médio dos frutos (40,18); firmeza do fruto (100,36) e produtividade (2,70) se destaca o genótipo MAXGU#03. Nas características diâmetro do fruto, comprimento do fruto e produtividade predomina os efeitos não aditivos. Nas caraterísticas peso do fruto e firmeza de polpa e casca foram efeitos aditivos, em seu desempenho “per se”. / The gherkin (Cucumis anguria L.) is a culture of great importance of in the North and Northeast of Brazil. However, most of the Brazilian production of this vegetable is obtained without the use of genotypes and appropriate technologies. The objectives of this study were phenotypic characterization local and commercial access of gherkin in the southern region of Tocantins, assess their capacity for action and the combination of genes. The experiment was conducted in a delineation of block design with three replications. The treatments were nine genotypes of gherkin and hybrids obtained in diallel crossings according to the methodology proposed by Gardner and Eberhart, totaling forty-five treatments. Fruits were collected of home gardens in the southern region of the state of Tocantins and also two commercial crops (Feltrin® e Topseed®), subsequently were multiplied the seeds of the fruits of the municipality of Gurupi and were made crosses. Were characterized nine genotypes with selections of their vegetative and reproductive parts, also its gene action was evaluated in relation to the estimates of effects of variety and heterosis and hybrids capacity combination and average variance of the fruits were evaluated for fruit diameter (mm), fruit length (mm), average fruit weight (g) and productivity (tonha-1). The vegetative characterization of the genotypes showed a slight separation between the genotypes, mainly at the characters related to the leaf size. In the reproductive traits, however, there was no separation between genotypes and cultivars. Some characters have a stronger correlation than others, such as the commercial cultivar Topseed ®, which differs from the other cultivars in PCA of vegetative characters. In the summary analysis of variation in the characteristics of fruit diameter, fruit length, fruit weight and fruit firmness were identified significant differences, whereas the characteristic productivity hadn't significant effects on the sources of variety, average heterosis and heterosis of variety. In the estimation of the effect of variety, diameter characteristics of the fruits (36.21); fruit length (45,29) and fruit weight (32,86) MAXGU#02 genotype was higher, and the feature of fruit firmness (133,80) and productivity (15,61) was the genotype MAXGU#01. The estimation of heterosis effect of variety, the characteristics fruit diameter (47,64); fruit length (80,43), average fruit weight (40.18), fruit firmness (100,36) and productivity (2,70) highlights the MAXGU#03 genotype. In the characteristics diameter, length and average weight of the fruits, additive effects predominated in their performance "per se". For firmness of pulp and peel and productivity predominate not additive effects.

Les propriétés intrinsèques des fibres amplificatrices telles que leur robustesse, leur efficacité, leur qualité de faisceau ou encore leur compacité ou leur bonne gestion thermique, en font un candidat idéal pour le développement de sources lasers de haute puissance, capables de rivaliser aujourd’hui avec les lasers solides. Les applications de ces sources avec de fortes puissances sont nombreuses : l’industrie (usinage, marquage), la défense (télémétrie, imagerie), la physique des particules. Dans ce dernier cas, des sources ultra-brèves et ultra-intenses permettent d’envisager de nouvelles applications telles que la proton-thérapie ou bien le remplacement des synchrotrons actuels par des architectures moins encombrantes et ayant un rendement plus important. Ce travail de thèse s’est déroulé dans le contexte du projet ICAN qui vise à étudier l’architecture de ces nouvelles sources.La combinaison cohérente de plusieurs amplificateurs fibrés en parallèle permet d’augmenter la puissance de ces sources. Pour atteindre les énergies visées dans le projet ICAN, la combinaison cohérente de 10 000 fibres doit être envisagée. L’objectif de cette thèse est de développer des techniques de contrôle de la phase compatibles avec un très grand nombre de fibres, pour leur application aux lasers ultra-intenses nécessaires à la physique des particules.Deux architectures de combinaison cohérente basées sur une mesure de phase interférométrique ont été réalisées dans cette thèse. La première, basé sur l’holographie numérique, permet un contrôle de la phase sans aucun calcul, collectif tant au niveau de la mesure que de la correction. La seconde architecture possède un contrôle actif de phase basé sur un algorithme de traitement d’images et elle a une bande passante compatible avec le spectre de bruit des amplificateurs. La combinaison cohérente de 16 fibres à 1kHz avec une erreur résiduelle de phase de λ/60mrs a été démontrée. La compatibilité de ces deux architectures avec 10 000 fibres a été étudiée et nous avons apporté quelques éléments pour la combinaison cohérente d’un très grand nombre de fibres. / The intrinsic properties of optical fibers like robustness, efficiency, beam quality, compactness and good thermal management can now compete with solid state lasers to develop high power laser sources. The applications of such sources include industry (machining, marking), defense (telemetry, lidar), and fundamental research. In this case, high intensity lasers are compulsory to produce the next generation of particles accelerators more efficient and more compact, both for fundamental research and its direct applications such as proton therapy. This work was done in the context of the ICAN project, which studies the feasibility of such sources.To overcome the limitations in terms of power of a single amplified fiber, an idea is to use several fiber lasers and to combine them coherently. To reach the ultra-high peak power and high average power requirements for these applications, the coherent beam combining of 10,000 fiber amplifiers has to be envisaged. The goal of the work is to develop a scheme of phase control scalable to a high number of combined fibers.Two schemes based on an interferometric phase measurement are realized in this work. The fist scheme, based on digital holography, permits a collective phase measurement and correction without calculation. The second scheme is based on an active phase control with individual phase modulators. This control requires an image processing algorithm and has a bandwidth compatible with the phase spectral noise of the amplifiers. The coherent combining of 16 fibers at 1kHz with a residual phase shift error of λ/60rms is achieved in this case. We use this second scheme to evaluate its scalability. We show that the coherent combining of 10,000 fibers using off-the-shelf components is already possible.