High-power fiber lasers and amplifiers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5620, Issue , 2004, Pages 137-146

  Tunnermann A ^a,b   Hofer S ^a   Liem, A ^a   Limpert, J ^a   Reich, M ^a   Roser F ^a   Schreiber, T ^a   Zellmer, H ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED OPTICS AND PRECISION ENGINEERING   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fiber design; Fiber lasers and amplifiers; Nonlinear fiber optics; Photonic crystal fibers; Power and energy scaling; Ytterbium

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; FIBER OPTICS; HIGH POWER LASERS; MULTIMODE FIBERS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL PUMPING; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; ULTRASHORT PULSES; YTTERBIUM;

FIBER DESIGN; FIBER LASERS AND AMPLIFIERS; NONLINEAR FIBER OPTICS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; POWER AND ENERGY SCALING;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 17644397015     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.580850     Document Type: Conference Paper

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