High-power spectral beam combining of fiber lasers with ultra high-spectral density by thermal tuning of volume Bragg gratings

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7914, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Drachenberg, Derrek ^a   Divliansky, Ivan ^a   Smirnov, Vadim ^b   Venus, George ^a   Glebov, Leonid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b OptiGrate Corp   (United States)

Author keywords

Fiber Lasers; Gaussian Beam Modeling; HEL; High Energy; High Power; High Radiance; Holographic Optical Element (HOE); Spectral Beam Combining; Volume Bragg Gratings

Indexed keywords

HEL; HIGH ENERGY; HIGH POWER; HIGH RADIANCE; SPECTRAL BEAMS; VOLUME BRAGG GRATINGS;

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; LASER APPLICATIONS; SPECTRAL DENSITY;

GAUSSIAN BEAMS;

EID: 79955799349     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.877172     Document Type: Conference Paper

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