Stimulated Brillouin scattering in a dual-clad fiber amplifier

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 2551-2557

  Brilliant, Nathan A ^a,b  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Division of Coherent Technologies Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; FIBER LASERS; SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

SINGLE-MODE CORES;

BRILLOUIN SCATTERING;

EID: 0141564665     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.19.002551     Document Type: Article

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