• DocumentCode
    3131609
  • Title

    Coherent Beam Combining of Multiple Solid-state Lasers with Simplified Active Stabilization

  • Author

    Wang, Qiang ; Yan, Li ; Ho, P.-T.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Electr. Eng., Maryland Univ., Baltimore, MD
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    Oct. 2006
  • Firstpage
    745
  • Lastpage
    746
  • Abstract
    The gain linewidth limits the scalability of combining multiple lasers by mutual injection locking. We propose a method to improve the scalability with a simple active stabilization scheme, and present results with Nd: YVO4 lasers
  • Keywords
    laser beams; laser mode locking; laser stability; light coherence; neodymium; solid lasers; yttrium compounds; YVO4:Nd; active stabilization scheme; coherent beam; gain linewidth limitation; multiple solid-state lasers; mutual injection locking; scalability; Fluctuations; Laser beams; Laser modes; Laser noise; Laser stability; Laser theory; Scalability; Solid lasers; Spatial coherence; Working environment noise;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2006. LEOS 2006. 19th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Montreal, Que.
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-9555-7
  • Electronic_ISBN
    0-7803-9555-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/LEOS.2006.278964
  • Filename
    4054399