Self-imaging and high-beam-quality operation in multi-mode planar waveguide optical amplifiers

Optics Express

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 297-302

  Baker, Howard J ^a   Lee, Jason R ^a   Hall, Denis R ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPING (ADDITIVES); IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; NEODYMIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; WAVEGUIDES;

DIODE PUMPING; GAUSSIAN BEAMS; PLANAR WAVEGUIDES; SELF-IMAGING;

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 0141976998     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.10.000297     Document Type: Article

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