Incoherent Beam Combining using Stimulated Brillouin Scattering in Multimode Fibers
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-12-2001
Abstract
A beam combining technique for producing a single, spatially coherent beam from two mutually incoherent (temporally and spatially) lasers is demonstrated and the spatial coherence properties of the resulting beam are characterized. The technique is based on simultaneous excitation of stimulated Brillouin scattering by two independent lasers operating at two different wavelengths in a long multimode optical fiber. Though spectrally independent, the resulting Stokes beams produce essentially identical intensity distributions corresponding to the fundamental fiber mode. Abstract © 2001 Optical Society of America.
Source Publication
Optics Express (e-ISSN 1094-4087)
Recommended Citation
Russell, T., Roh, W., & Marciante, J. (2001). Incoherent beam combining using stimulated Brillouin scattering in multimode fibers. Optics Express, 8(4), 246. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.8.000246
Comments
© 2001 Optical Society of America.
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This research was supported in part by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Air Force Materiel Command, USAF, under project order number QAF185005203223.