Beam combination through stimulated Brillouin scattering
- 1 December 1988
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Journal of the Optical Society of America B
- Vol. 5 (12) , 2473-2489
- https://doi.org/10.1364/josab.5.002473
Abstract
Stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) is used for multiple-beam combining by overlapping the beams in the SBS interaction volume and for phase control by backseeding the interaction volume. Tripled Nd:YAG laser experiments and wave-optics analyses indicate the conditions of beam overlap, power, and focusing that are required to obtain effective beam combining and phase control.Keywords
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