High power coherent beam combination from two fiber lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 2721-2726

  He, Bing ^a   Lou, Qihong ^a   Zhou, Jun ^a   Dong, Jingxing ^a   Wei, Yunrong ^a   Xue, Dong ^a   Qi, Yunfeng ^a   Su, Zhoupin ^a   Li, Libo ^a   Zhang, Fangpei ^a  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND FINE MECHANICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; HIGH POWER LASERS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; RESONATORS; THERMAL EFFECTS; WAVE FILTERS;

COHERENT BEAM COMBINATION; FIBER ARRAY; PUMP POWER; SELF-IMAGING RESONATOR; SPATIAL FILTER;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 33645521629     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.002721     Document Type: Article

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