Bending insensitive, highly Yb-doped LMA triple-clad fiber for nearly diffraction-limited laser output

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6101, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Croteau, André ^a   Paré, Claude ^a   Zheng, Huimin ^a   Laperle, Pierre ^a   Taillon, Yves ^a  

^a INO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fiber amplifier; Fiber laser; Large mode area; Stimulated Brillouin scattering; Triple clad; Ytterbium

Indexed keywords

BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; CLADDING (COATING); DIFFRACTION; FIBER LASERS; LASER PULSES; YTTERBIUM;

LARGE-MODE-AREA; NUMERICAL APERTURE; STIMULATED BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; TRIPLE-CLAD;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 33645990617     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.674317     Document Type: Conference Paper

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