High-beam-quality 2-kW-class Spectrally Combined Laser Using Narrow-linewidth Ytterbium-doped Polarization-maintaining Fiber Amplifiers |
Jeong, Hwanseong
(Ground Technology Research Institute, Agency for Defense Development)
Lee, Kwang Hyun (Ground Technology Research Institute, Agency for Defense Development) Lee, Junsu (Ground Technology Research Institute, Agency for Defense Development) Kim, Dong-Joon (Ground Technology Research Institute, Agency for Defense Development) Lee, Jung Hwan (Ground Technology Research Institute, Agency for Defense Development) Jo, Minsik (Ground Technology Research Institute, Agency for Defense Development) |
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