Incoherent beam combining of continuous-wave and pulsed Yb-Doped fiber amplifiers

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 354-360

  Schreiber, Thomas ^a   Wirth, Christian ^b   Schmidt, Oliver ^b   Andersen, Thomas V ^c   Tsybin, Igor ^a   Bahme, Steffen ^a   Peschel, Thomas ^a   Brackner, Frank ^b   Clausnitzer, Tina ^b   Raser, Fabian ^b   Eberhardt, Ramona ^a   Limpert, Jens ^b   Tannermann, Andreas ^a,b  

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

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c NONE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

High power fiber laser and amplifiers; Photonic crystal fiber; Spectral beam combining (SBC)

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE POWER; BEAM COMBINING; CONTINUOUS WAVES; DIELECTRIC GRATINGS; HIGH-POWER FIBER LASER AND AMPLIFIERS; PULSE ENERGIES; SPECTRAL BEAM COMBINING (SBC); YB-DOPED FIBERS;

CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE; CRYSTAL WHISKERS; FIBERS; LASER PULSES; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; YTTERBIUM;

FIBER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 64549126897     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2008.2012267     Document Type: Article

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