Limits of coherent addition of lasers: Simple estimate

Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO - Technical Digest

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 1061-1063

  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

COHERENT LIGHT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

COHERENT BEAM ADDITION; COHERENT BEAM COMBINING; LASER ADDITION; POWER SCALING;

HIGH POWER LASERS;

EID: 33847097193     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CLEOPR.2005.1569654     Document Type: Conference Paper

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