258 W of spectrally beam combined power with near-diffraction limited beam quality

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6102, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Loftus, Thomas H ^a   Liu, Anping ^a   Hoffman, Paul R ^a   Thomas, Alison ^a   Norsen, Marc ^a   Hamilton, Charles E ^b   Honea, Eric ^a  

^a ACULIGHT CORPORATION   (United States)

^b BE Meyers   (United States)

Author keywords

Beam combining; Fiber amplifiers; Fiber lasers; Spectral beam combining; Wavelength beam combining

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; DISPERSION (WAVES); LASER BEAMS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); POWER AMPLIFIERS; YTTERBIUM;

BEAM COMBINING; SPECTRAL BEAM COMBINING; SPECTRALLY BEAM COMBINE (SBC); WAVELENGTH BEAM COMBINING;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 33645964339     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.648097     Document Type: Conference Paper

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