Mutual injection locking and coherent beam combining of multiple Nd:YVO 4 lasers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5792, Issue , 2005, Pages 48-53

  Wang, Qiang ^a   Han, Song ^a   Yan, Li ^a   Ho, P T ^b   Dubinskii, Mark ^c   Wood, Gary ^c   Zandi, Bahram ^c  

^a Baltimore County   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coherent beam combining; Mutual injection locking; Solid state laser

Indexed keywords

COHERENT BEAM COMBINING; FREE-RUNNING RATE; LASER CAVITY; MUTUAL INJECTION LOCKING;

INJECTION LASERS; LASER BEAMS; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; TUNING; YTTRIUM COMPOUNDS;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

EID: 26844492594     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.604024     Document Type: Conference Paper

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