Dynamical, bidirectional model for coherent beam combining in passive fiber laser arrays

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 25, 2010, Pages 25873-25886

  Wu, Tsai Wei ^a   Chang, Wei Zung ^a   Galvanauskas, Almantas ^a   Winful, Herbert G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKWARD PROPAGATING WAVES; BEAM COMBINING; COHERENT BEAM COMBINING; COHERENT COMBINING; COUNTERPROPAGATING WAVES; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; EXTENDED MODEL; FIBER LASER ARRAY; HIGH POWER LEVEL; LOSS MECHANISMS; NON-LINEARITY; NONRESONANT; POPULATION RELAXATION; TRANSIENT GAIN;

FIBER LASERS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LASERS; LIGHT; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 78650038379     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.025873     Document Type: Article

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