Fiber laser coherent array for power scaling, bandwidth narrowing, and coherent beam direction control

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5709, Issue , 2005, Pages 165-174

  Shirakawa, Akira ^a   Matsuo, Keigo ^a   Ueda, Ken Ichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coherent array; Coherent beam combining; Coherent control of beam direction; Complex resonator; Narrowband fiber laser; Power scaling of fiber laser

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COHERENT LIGHT; ELECTRIC EXCITATION; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; RESONATORS; THRESHOLD VOLTAGE;

COHERENT ARRAY; COHERENT BEAM COMBINING; COHERENT CONTROL OF BEAM DIRECTION; COMPLEX RESONATOR; NARROWBAND FIBER LASER; POWER SCALING; POWER SCALING OF FIBER LASER;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 21844437946     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.590328     Document Type: Conference Paper

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