Phase-locked antiguided multiple-core ribbon fiber

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 670-672

  Beach, Raymond J ^a   Feit, Michael D ^a   Mitchell, Scott C ^a   Cutter, Kurt P ^a   Payne, Stephen A ^a   Mead, Richard W ^b   Hayden, Joseph S ^c   Krashkevich, David ^c   Alunni, David A ^c  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Collimated Holes Inc ^*  (United States)

^c Schott Glass Technologies   (United States)

Author keywords

Clad pumping; Fiber lasers; Multicore fiber; Phase locking; Waveguides

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL PUMPING; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHASE LOCKED LOOPS; RECTANGULAR WAVEGUIDES; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

CLAD PUMPING; MULTICORE FIBER;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0038190947     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2003.809943     Document Type: Article

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