Passive coherent locking of fiber lasers using volume Bragg gratings

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7580, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Jain, Apurva ^a   Andrusyak, Oleksiy ^a   Venus, George ^a   Smirnov, Vadim ^b   Glebov, Leonid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b OptiGrate Corp   (United States)

Author keywords

Coherent beam combining; Passive phase locking; Volume Bragg gratings; Yb doped fiber lasers

Indexed keywords

COHERENT BEAM COMBINING; LINEAR POLARIZATION; NARROW-LINE WIDTH; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; PASSIVE PHASE; PHOTO-THERMO-REFRACTIVE GLASS; TWO-CHANNEL; VOLUME BRAGG GRATINGS; YB-DOPED FIBER LASERS;

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; FIBERS; GLASS LASERS; PHASE LOCKED LOOPS; PUMPING (LASER); YTTERBIUM;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 77951796542     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.845947     Document Type: Conference Paper

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