Spectral beam combining of fiber lasers with increased channel density

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6453, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Andrusyak, Oleksiy ^a   Ciapurin, Igor ^b   Smimov, Vadim ^b   Venus, George ^a   Glebov, Leonid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b OptiGrate Corp   (United States)

Author keywords

Channel spacing; Fiber lasers; High power; Spectral beam combining; Spectral density; Volume Bragg grating

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL DENSITY; CHANNEL SPACING; PHOTOTHERMOREFRACTIVE (PTR) GLASS; SPECTRAL BEAM COMBINING (SBC);

DIFFRACTION EFFICIENCY; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; GLASS FIBERS; HIGH POWER LASERS; LASER RADIATION;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 34248363691     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.712602     Document Type: Conference Paper

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