Coherent combining of fibre lasers

Comptes Rendus Physique

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 244-253

  Desfarges Berthelemot, Agnès ^a   Kermène, Vincent ^a   Sabourdy, David ^a   Boullet, Johan ^a   Roy, Philippe ^a   Lhermite, Jerôme ^a   Barthélémy, Alain ^a  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

Coherent combining; Fibre lasers

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646502151     PISSN: 16310705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crhy.2006.01.019     Document Type: Short Survey

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