Results and comparison of a cladding pumped fiber simulation using a decagon-shaped fiber

Optics Express

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 830-837

  Young, D ^a   Roychoudhuri, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); APPROXIMATION THEORY; CLADDING (COATING); COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTRIC FIELDS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RARE EARTH ADDITIONS; YTTERBIUM;

BEAM PROPAGATION; CLADDING PUMPED FIBERS; SINGLE MODE PROPAGATION;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0242426028     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.11.000830     Document Type: Article

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