Current developments in high power, monolithic, polarization maintaining fiber amplifiers for coherent beam combining applications

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6453, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Machewirth, D P ^a   Wang, Q ^a   Samson, B ^a   Tankala, K ^a   O'Connor, M ^a   Alam, M ^a  

^a NUFERN   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; HIGH POWER LASERS; LINEWIDTH; POLARIZATION; PUMPING (LASER);

COHERENT BEAM COMBINING APPLICATIONS; NARROW LINEWIDTH AMPLIFICATION; SIGNAL COMBINERS;

FIBER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 34248334269     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.712691     Document Type: Conference Paper

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