Coherent and spectral beam combining of fiber lasers using volume Bragg gratings

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7686, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Jain, Apurva ^a   Drachenberg, Derrek ^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; fiber lasers; spectral beam combining; volume Bragg gratings

Indexed keywords

COHERENT BEAM COMBINING; HIGH-POWER; HYBRID ARCHITECTURES; PHOTO-THERMO-REFRACTIVE GLASS; SPECTRAL BEAMS; SPECTRAL SEPARATION; THERMAL CONTROL; VOLUME BRAGG GRATINGS;

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; FIBERS;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 77953546998     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.851363     Document Type: Conference Paper

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