Design and high power operation of a stress-induced single-polarization single-transverse mode LMA Yb-doped photonic crystal fiber

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6102, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Schreiber, T ^a   Schultz, H ^a   Roser F ^a   Schmidt, O ^a   Limpert, J ^a   Iliew, R ^a   Petersson, A ^b   Jacobsen, C ^b   Hansen, K P ^b   Broeng, J ^b   Tunnermann A ^a,c  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b NKT PHOTONICS A S   (Denmark)

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

Author keywords

Birefringence; Photonic crystal fibers; Polarizing fibers

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); BIREFRINGENCE; CLADDING (COATING); CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DOPING (ADDITIVES); HIGH POWER LASERS; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; SILICA; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; YTTERBIUM;

PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; POLARIZING FIBERS; POLARIZING WINDOW;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 33645977545     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.646020     Document Type: Conference Paper

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