Simulation and Experimental Investigation on Coherent Beam Combination of Two Fiber Amplifiers Based on Stochastic Parallel Gradient Descent Algorithm

Zhou Pu; Liu Zejin; Ma Yanxing; Wang Xiaolin; Xu Xiaojun; Guo Shaofeng

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