Polarization-maintaining, double-clad fiber amplifier employing externally applied stress-induced birefringence

Optics Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 387-389

  Koplow, Jeffrey P ^a   Goldberg, Lew ^a   Moeller, Robert P ^a   Kliner, Dahv A V ^b  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STRESS-INDUCED BIREFRINGENCE;

BIREFRINGENCE; CLADDING (COATING); DOPING (ADDITIVES); ERBIUM; LIGHT POLARIZATION; STRESS ANALYSIS; YTTERBIUM;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0141840660     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.25.000387     Document Type: Article

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