Recent progress of fiber beam combination

WANG Shuang-yi; LIN Dian-yang; WANG Chao

Several mainstream laser beam combination methods,including stimulated Brillouin scattering,diffraction optics units and all fiber beam combination,are introduced.Comparison and analyses of these methods are presented.Finally an overview about the application of laser beam combination is made.

1. Institute of Opto-Electronics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China

Received Date: 2004-09-15

Accepted Date: 2004-11-09

Available Online: 2005-11-25

Abstract: Several mainstream laser beam combination methods,including stimulated Brillouin scattering,diffraction optics units and all fiber beam combination,are introduced.Comparison and analyses of these methods are presented.Finally an overview about the application of laser beam combination is made.

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