Coherent addition of fiber lasers by use of a fiber coupler

Optics Express

Volumn 10, Issue 21, 2002, Pages 1167-1172

  Shirakawa, Akira ^a   Saitou, Tomoharu ^a   Sekiguchi, Tomoki ^a   Ueda, Ken Ichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING; PHASE LOCKED LOOPS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

FUSED-FIBER COUPLERS; OUTPUT POWER; TRANSITION REGION;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 3042688914     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.10.001167     Document Type: Article

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