Coherent beam combining of two fiber amplifiers using stochastic parallel gradient descent algorithm

Optics and Laser Technology

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 853-856

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

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Coherent beam combining; Fiber amplifier; Stochastic parallel gradient descent

Indexed keywords

CLOSED LOOPS; COHERENT BEAM COMBINING; DSP CHIPS; FAR FIELDS; FRINGE CONTRASTS; FRINGE PATTERNS; OPEN LOOPS; OUTPUT POWER; STOCHASTIC PARALLEL GRADIENT DESCENT; STOCHASTIC PARALLEL GRADIENT DESCENT ALGORITHMS; WHOLE SYSTEMS;

FIBERS; MOIRE FRINGES; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

FIBER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 67349150677     PISSN: 00303992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optlastec.2009.03.002     Document Type: Article

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