Abstract
Rapidly chirped optical waveforms reduce stimulated Brillouin scattering in fiber amplifiers, enabling higher output powers. This work demonstrates homodyne and heterodyne phase-locking, and coherent combining, of linearly chirped optical waves using acoustooptic frequency shifters.
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