Binary coherent beam combination with mirror pairs

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 30, 2002, Pages 6399-6409

  Moore, Gerald T ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIREFLECTION COATINGS; ARRAYS; BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS; FIBER LASERS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT SOURCES; MIRRORS; MULTIPLEXING; OPTICAL PHASE CONJUGATION; PHASE CONTROL; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS;

DIFFRACTION-LIMITED BEAMS;

LASER BEAMS;

EID: 0037145474     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.006399     Document Type: Article

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