Coherent combination of fiber lasers with a diffractive optical element

Advanced Solid-State Photonics, ASSP 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Wickham, Michael ^a   Cheung, Eric C ^a   Ho, James G ^a   Goodno, Gregory D ^a   Rice, Robert R ^a   Rothenberg, Josh ^a   Thielen, Peter ^a   Weber, Mark ^a  

^a NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY (OPTICAL); DIFFRACTIVE OPTICAL ELEMENTS; FIBER LASERS;

COHERENT COMBINATION; HIGH POWER; PHASE-LOCKED ARRAYS; POWER HANDLING;

LASER MODE LOCKING;

EID: 84884296300     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1364/assp.2008.wa5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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