Four-channel, high power, passively phase locked fiber array

Advanced Solid-State Photonics, ASSP 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Loftus, Thomas H ^a   Thomas, Alison M ^a   Norsen, Marc ^a   Minelly, John D ^a   Jones, Pat ^a   Honea, Eric ^a   Shakir, Sami A ^b   Hendow, Sami ^c   Culver, William ^b   Nelson, Burke ^b   Fitelson, Mike ^b  

^a ACULIGHT CORPORATION   (United States)

^b NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^c Spectra Physics Lasers Division   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; LOCKS (FASTENERS); VISIBILITY;

FIBER ARRAY; FOUR-CHANNEL; FRINGE VISIBILITIES; HIGH POWER; OUTPUT POWER; PHASE LOCKED; YB FIBER LASERS;

LASER MODE LOCKING;

EID: 84884320209     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1364/assp.2008.wa4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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