Title :
Laser Beam Combing For High-Power, Broadband Sources, Using Two-Step Refractive Grating
Author :
Mayeh, Mona ; Farahi, Faramarz
Author_Institution :
Univ. of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte
Abstract :
An efficient method for combining mutually incoherent laser sources in a single mode fiber using two diffractive gratings is presented. Multiple laser beams in different range of wavelength could be combined with the efficiency greater than 70%.
Keywords :
biomedical optical imaging; diffraction gratings; laser applications in medicine; laser beams; light sources; optical fibres; optical tomography; broadband sources; diffractive gratings; incoherent laser sources; laser beam combination; medical imaging; multiple laser beams; optical coherence tomography; single mode fiber; two-step refractive grating; Diffraction gratings; Fiber gratings; Fiber lasers; Laser beams; Laser modes; Optical arrays; Optical refraction; Optical variables control; Phased arrays; Power lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007. CLEO 2007. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-834-6
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2007.4453145
