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INTERFEROMETRY: Beam combiner can help find exoplanets
… stellar interferometer—the beam combiner .1 Designed to operate in the ..... along only one dimension), the beam combiner must accept more than two beams ..... To create an integrated-optic beam combiner that transmits in the K-band and …
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LASER BEAM COMBINING: Coherent beam combiner yields 100 W of fiber-laser power
Over the last decade, high-power fiber lasers have gained substantial market share in industrial applications such as marking, metal cutting, and welding due to their excellent output-beam quality and high wall-plug efficiency.
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LASER BEAM COMBINING: Coherent beam combiner yields 100 W of fiber-laser power
Over the last decade, high-power fiber lasers have gained substantial market share in industrial applications such as marking, metal cutting, and welding due to their excellent output-beam quality and high wall-plug efficiency.
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OPTICAL FIBER AMPLIFIERS: Few-mode fiber amplifiers assist spatial-division multiplexing
… optical variable attenuators (OVAs) to generate the N pump modes. The N signal modes are spatially combined using a beam combiner and input to the signal path via a dichroic mirror. By tuning each OVA, the power of individual pump mode content …
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HIGH-POWER DIODE LASERS: Low-numerical-aperture direct diode laser maintains high power
… industrially robust and its losses are negligible. FIGURE 1. An optical plate for a direct-diode system includes a beam - combiner enclosure and fiber-output couplings (a). Weld penetration versus welding speed for a 3 kW system is shown for …
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HIGH-POWER DIODE LASERS: Low-numerical-aperture direct diode laser maintains high power
… industrially robust and its losses are negligible. FIGURE 1. An optical plate for a direct-diode system includes a beam - combiner enclosure and fiber-output couplings (a). Weld penetration versus welding speed for a 3 kW system is shown for …
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(VIDEO) Beyond fusion splicing, cameras flying into space, and more SPIE Photonics West 2010 highlights
… Vytran is working on much more than fusion splicing these days. They recently demonstrated an all-fiber laser- beam combiner (look for the news story in the April issue of Laser Focus World magazine), have perfected adiabatic or “lossless …
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Fiber lasers bring femtoseconds to the masses
… supercontinuum and one long-wavelength supercontinuum. Constructive and destructive interference at the dichroic beam combiner generates a single-cycle pulse as shown in inset. A close-up view of the femtosecond erbium-fiber system (bottom …
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FIBER LASERS: Erbium-doped fibers produce a single cycle of light
… between the two light paths is less than 50 attoseconds, coherent superposition of the two beams using a dichroic beam combiner (DBC) reveals a single-cycle pulse with FWHM pulse duration of 4.3 fs at 1.5 µm. The researchers said measuring …
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MICRODISPLAYS: Infrared scene projector provides realistic threat scenarios
… to the page. The two images are superimposed by the beam combiner . A side view shows the red DMD illuminated at 24 ..... reflected by each micromirror in each DMD toward a dichroic beam combiner followed by a (telecentric) projector lens that forms …
