Simultaneous injection locking of couples of high-power broad-area lasers driven by a common current source

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 24, 2002, Pages 5036-5039

  Liu, Yun ^a   Liu, Hua Kuang ^a   Braiman, Yehuda ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CURRENTS; INJECTION LASERS; LASER BEAMS; LASER MODE LOCKING; PUMPING (LASER);

INTERFERENCE PATTERNS; LASER DIODE ARRAYS;

HIGH POWER LASERS;

EID: 0037143941     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.005036     Document Type: Article

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