Coherent beam combining of giber amplifiers using stochastic parallel gradient descent algorithm and its application

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 248-256

  Zhou, Pu ^a   Liu, Zejin ^a   Wang, Xiaolin ^a   Ma, Yanxing ^a   Ma, Haotong ^a   Xu, Xiaojun ^a   Guo, Shaofeng ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Beam shaping; Beam steering; Coherent beam combining; Fiber amplifier; Stochastic parallel gradient descent(SPGD) algorithm

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION FIELDS; BEAM SHAPING; BEAM STEERING; COHERENT BEAM COMBINING; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCHES; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; STOCHASTIC PARALLEL GRADIENT DESCENT ALGORITHMS; STOCHASTIC PARALLEL GRADIENT DESCENT(SPGD) ALGORITHM;

FIBERS; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

FIBER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 64549109714     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2008.2010231     Document Type: Article

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