1 kW cw Yb-fiber-amplifier with <0.5GHz linewidth and near-diffraction limited beam-quality for coherent combining application

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7914, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Engin, Doruk ^a   Lu, Wei ^a   Akbulut, Mehmetcan ^a   McIntosh, Bruce ^a   Verdun, Horacio ^a   Gupta, Shantanu ^a  

^a FIBERTEK INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Brillouin; Coherent; Fiber Amplifier; Fiber Laser; large mode area; MOPA; SBS

Indexed keywords

BRILLOUIN; COHERENT; LARGE MODE AREA; MOPA; SBS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFRACTION; FIBERS; PHASE MODULATION; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; STIMULATED BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; YTTERBIUM;

FIBER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 79954552273     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.875701     Document Type: Conference Paper

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