Fundamental mode operation of a 19-core phase-locked Yb-doped fiber amplifier

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 25, 2004, Pages 6230-6239

  Huo, Yanming ^a   Cheo, Peter K ^a   King, George G ^a  

^a PC Photonics Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; DOPING (ADDITIVES); FIBER LASERS; OPTICAL FIBERS; Q SWITCHING; YTTERBIUM;

GAUSSIAN BEAM; LASER AMPLIFIERS; LASER ARRAYS; MODES;

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 11244265984     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.006230     Document Type: Article

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