Beam quality after propagation of Nd:YAG laser light through large-core optical fibers

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 36, 2000, Pages 6754-6760

  Kuhn, Andreas ^a,b   Blewett, Ian J ^a,c   Hand, Duncan P ^a   Jones, Julian D C ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b GSI Lumonics   (United Kingdom)

^c Kymata Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH POWER LASERS; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; OPTICAL FIBERS;

SPATIAL DISPERSION;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

EID: 0037491680     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.006754     Document Type: Article

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