Coherent beam combination of a hexagonal distributed high power fiber amplifier array

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 33, 2009, Pages 6537-6540

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

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSORS; FIBERS; GRADIENT METHODS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

BEAM COMBINER; BEAM PROFILES; CLOSED LOOPS; COHERENT BEAM COMBINATIONS; HEXAGONAL ARRAYS; HIGH POWER FIBER AMPLIFIER; OUTPUT POWER; STOCHASTIC PARALLEL GRADIENT DESCENT ALGORITHM;

FIBER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 73649099455     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.006537     Document Type: Article

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