Limits of coherent addition of lasers: Simple estimate

Optical Review

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 445-447

  Kouznetsov, Dmitrii ^a   Bisson, Jean François ^a   Shirakawa, Akira ^a   Ueda, Ken Ichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coherent beam addition; Coherent beam combining; Laser addition; Power scaling

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645232607     PISSN: 13406000     EISSN: 13499432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10043-005-0445-8     Document Type: Article

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