Mode-area scaling of helical-core dual-clad fiber lasers and amplifiers

2005 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO

Volumn 3, Issue , 2005, Pages 1849-1851

  Jiang, Z ^a   Marciante, J R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

COILED FIBERS; DUAL-CLAD FIBERS; SINGLE-MODE OPERATION;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 30944447708     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/cleo.2005.202296     Document Type: Conference Paper

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