High-power photonic crystal fiber lasers: Design, handling and subassemblies

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5709, Issue , 2005, Pages 273-283

  Hansen, Kim P ^a   Broeng, Jes ^a   Skovgaard, Peter M W ^a   Folkenberg, Jacob R ^a   Nielsen, Martin D ^a   Petersson, Anders ^a   Hansen, Theis P ^a   Jakobsen, Christian ^a   Simonsen, Harald R ^a   Limpert, Jens ^b,c   Salin, François ^b  

^a NKT PHOTONICS A S   (Denmark)

^b CENTRE LASERS INTENSES ET APPLICATIONS   (France)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Air clad fibers; High power fiber lasers; Photonic crystal fibers; Subassemblies

Indexed keywords

AIR; CLADDING (COATING); CRYSTALS; HIGH POWER LASERS; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTONS;

AIR-CLAD FIBERS; HIGH POWER FIBER LASERS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; SUBASSEMBLIES;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 21844434917     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.590992     Document Type: Conference Paper

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