Demonstration of a multiwave coherent holographic beam combiner in a polymeric substrate Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • We demonstrate an efficient coherent holographic beam combiner (CHBC) that uses angle multiplexing of gratings in a thick polymeric substrate. Our experimental results compare well with the theoretical model based on the coupled-wave theory of multiwave mixing in a passive medium. A CHBC of this type may prove useful in producing a high-power laser by combining amplified beams produced by splitting a master oscillator. Furthermore, the ability to angle multiplex a large number of beams enables a CHBC to be used in multiple-beam interferometry applications as a high-precision surface sensor. 2005 Optical Society of America.

published proceedings

  • Optics Letters

altmetric score

  • 3

author list (cited authors)

  • Yum, H. N., Hemmer, P. R., Heifetz, A., Shen, J. T., Lee, J. K., Tripathi, R., & Shahriar, M. S.

citation count

  • 6

complete list of authors

  • Yum, HN||Hemmer, PR||Heifetz, A||Shen, JT||Lee, JK||Tripathi, R||Shahriar, MS

publication date

  • November 2005