Spectral combining of high-power fiber laser beams using Bragg grating in PTR glass

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5335, Issue , 2004, Pages 116-124

  Ciapurin, Igor V ^a   Glebov, Leonid B ^a   Smirnov, Vadim I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

High power fiber lasers; Photo thermo refractive glass; Spectral beam combining; Volume Bragg gratings

Indexed keywords

HIGH-POWER FIBER LASERS; PHOTO-THERMO-REFRACTIVE (PTR); VOLUME BRAGG GRATINGS (VBG);

DOPING (ADDITIVES); FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONOCHROMATORS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS;

LASER BEAMS;

EID: 4344592570     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.533740     Document Type: Conference Paper

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