Large mode area fibers for high power laser operation based on solid- And air-microstructured cores

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5709, Issue , 2005, Pages 301-309

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

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b CENTRE LASERS INTENSES ET APPLICATIONS   (France)

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

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

AIR; AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); CRYSTALS; MICROSTRUCTURE; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTONS;

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

HIGH POWER LASERS;

EID: 21844443337     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.594514     Document Type: Conference Paper

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