Incoherent beam combining using stimulated Brillouin scattering in multimode fibers

Optics Express

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 246-254

  Russell, Timothy H ^a   Roh, Won B ^a   Marciante, John R ^b  

^a AIR FORCE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MULTIMODE FIBERS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); POWER AMPLIFIERS; SCATTERING;

BEAM PROFILE; COHERENT BEAMS; LASER BEAM SHAPING; STOKES WAVES;

LASER BEAMS;

EID: 0000522751     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.8.000246     Document Type: Article

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