Title :
Scalable coherent beam combining of fiber lasers
Author :
Shirakawa, Akira ; Sekiguchi, Tomoki ; Ueda, Ken-ichi
Author_Institution :
Inst. for Laser Sci., Univ. of Electro-Commun., Tokyo, Japan
Abstract :
Coherent addition of N fiber lasers using fiber couplers has been investigated for N=2, 4, and 8. As N increases, higher addition efficiency can be obtained due to suppression of sideband excitation by lineshape narrowing.
Keywords :
fibre lasers; optical fibre couplers; fiber couplers; fiber lasers; lineshape narrowing; scalable coherent beam combining; sideband excitation suppression; Fiber lasers; Laser beams; Laser excitation; Laser feedback; Laser modes; Laser theory; Optical arrays; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber polarization; Pump lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2003. CLEO '03. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD, USA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-748-2
