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.
DOI
10.1364/OE.8.000246
Source Publication
Optics Express
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
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