Propagation losses of pump light in rectangular double-clad fibers

Optical Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 3130-3134

  Liu, Anping ^a   Ueda, Kenichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Pump losses; Rectangular double clad fibers

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000137838     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.601052     Document Type: Article

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