Coherent addition of adjacent lasers by forked eigenstate operation

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 2402-2406

  Brunel, Marc ^a   Floch, Albert Le ^a   Bretenaker, Fabien ^a   Marty, Jean ^b   Molva, Engin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b CEA LETI   (France)

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EID: 85010119100     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.002402     Document Type: Article

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