2 kW incoherent beam combining of four narrow-linewidth photonic crystal fiber amplifiers

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1178-1183

  Wirth, C ^a   Schmidt, O ^a   Tsybin, I ^b   Schreiber, T ^b   Peschel, T ^b   Bruckner F ^a   Clausnitzer, T ^a   Limpert, J ^a   Eberhardt, R ^b   Tunnermann A ^a,b   Gowin, M ^c   Ten Have, E ^c   Ludewigt, K ^c   Jung, M ^c  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED OPTICS AND PRECISION ENGINEERING   (Germany)

^c Rheinmetall W and M GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAINS; CRYSTAL WHISKERS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS;

AMPLIFIER CHAINS; FIBER AMPLIFIER CHAINS; GOOD BEAM QUALITY; INCOHERENT BEAMS; LARGE-MODE-AREA PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; NARROW-LINE WIDTH; OPTICAL OUTPUT POWER; POLARIZATION-INDEPENDENT;

FIBER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 59749090931     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.001178     Document Type: Article

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