Imposing a Gaussian distribution in multichannel laser resonators

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 686-693

  Eckhouse, Vardit ^a   Ishaaya, Amiel A ^a   Shimshi, Liran ^a   Davidson, Nir ^a   Friesem, Asher A ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Coherent addition; Laser arrays; Lasers

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MIRRORS; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; VECTORS;

COHERENT ADDITION; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; LASER ARRAYS;

LASER RESONATORS;

EID: 19344366081     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2005.845920     Document Type: Article

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