AAWSAP DIRD, State of the Art and Evolution of High-Energy Lasers, March 2010

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Figure 6. I ncoherent Combination of Single Mode Lasers at the Target
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Figure 7. Incoherent Combination of Single Mode Lasers in a Fiber Combiner
This larger fiber does not maintain the beam quality of the individual laser beams and
results in performance roughly equivalent to separately focusing the beams onto a
single spot. For example, seven individual fibers have been combined into a larger fiber
to produce a single beam with a beam quality of about 6 times the diffraction limit and
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