Brightness-scaling potential of actively phase-locked solid-state laser arrays

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 460-471

  Goodno, Gregory D ^b   Asman, Charles P ^b   Anderegg, Jesse ^b   Brosnan, Steve ^b   Cheung, Eric C ^b   Hammons, Dennis ^b   Injeyan, Hagop ^a,b   Komine, Hiroshi ^b   Long Jr , William H ^b   McClellan, Michael ^b   McNaught, Stuart J ^b   Redmond, Shawn ^b   Simpson, Randall ^b   Sollee, Jeff ^b   Weber, Mark ^b   Benjamin Weiss, S ^b   Wickham, Michael ^b  

^a IEEE

^b NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Laser amplifiers; Laser arrays; Laser beam distortion

Indexed keywords

LASER BEAMS; LUMINANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

BRIGHTNESS SCALING; LASER AMPLIFIERS; LASER ARRAYS; LASER BEAM DISTORTION;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 34250714967     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2007.896618     Document Type: Article

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