Narrow linewidth power scaling and phase stabilization of 2-μm thulium fiber lasers

Optical Engineering

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Goodno, Gregory D ^a   Book, Lewis D ^a   Rothenberg, Joshua E ^a   Weber, Mark E ^a   Benjamin Weiss, S ^a  

^a NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

fiber lasers; high power lasers; infrared lasers; phase compensation; phased arrays; single mode fibers

Indexed keywords

COHERENT BEAM COMBINING; NARROW-LINE WIDTH; PHASE COMPENSATION; PHASE STABILIZATION; PHASE-LOCKING; POWER-SCALING; SINGLE MODE; SINGLE MODE OPERATION; SINGLE-FREQUENCY; THERMAL LIMITATIONS; YB FIBER LASERS; YTTERBIUM-DOPED FIBER LASERS;

FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; LINEWIDTH; PUMPING (LASER); SINGLE MODE FIBERS; STIMULATED BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; THULIUM; YTTERBIUM;

INFRARED LASERS;

EID: 80054829307     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3631869     Document Type: Article

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