External and common-cavity high spectral density beam combining of high power fiber lasers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6873, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Andrusyak, Oleksiy ^a   Ciapurin, Igor ^b   Smirnov, Vadim ^b   Venus, George ^a   Vorobiev, Nikolai ^a   Glebov, Leonid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b OptiGrate Corp   (United States)

Author keywords

Fiber lasers; High power; Spectral beam combining; Spectral density; Volume Bragg grating; Wavelength control

Indexed keywords

(140.3500) LASERS; (OTDR) TECHNOLOGY; (PL) PROPERTIES; BEAM COMBINING; CAVITY CONFIGURATION; COMBINING EFFICIENCY; DIFFRACTION LIMITED; HIGH EFFICIENCY; HIGH POWER OPERATIONS; HIGH POWERS; HIGH TRANSMITTANCE; HIGH-POWER FIBER LASERS; HIGH-POWER LASERS; INTRA CAVITY; LARGE APERTURES; LASER SYSTEMS; MAXIMUM OUTPUT POWER; MULTIPLE SOURCES; NEAR-IR; PHOTO THERMO REFRACTIVE (PTR) GLASS; POWER SCALING; ROBUST TECHNIQUE; SPECTRAL BEAM COMBINING; SPECTRAL SEPARATION; VOLUME BRAGG GRATINGS; WAVELENGTH CONTROL;

BRAGG CELLS; BRAGG GRATINGS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; DIFFRACTION; FIBER OPTICS; FIBERS; GLASS; IRIDIUM; LASER BEAMS; LASER RADIATION; LASERS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTOSENSITIVE GLASS; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; RADIATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SENSOR NETWORKS; SEPARATION; TECHNOLOGY; WASTEWATER;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 44949134895     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.769586     Document Type: Conference Paper

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