DocumentCode
412167
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
fYear
2003
fDate
6-6 June 2003
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;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2003. CLEO '03. Conference on
Conference_Location
Baltimore, MD, USA
Print_ISBN
1-55752-748-2
Type
conf
Filename
1298316
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