High-power photonic crystal fibers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6102, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Hansen, Kim P ^a   Broeng, Jes ^a   Petersson, Anders ^a   Nielsen, Martin D ^a   Skovgaard, Peter M W ^a   Jakobsen, Christian ^a   Simonsen, Harald R ^a  

^a NKT PHOTONICS A S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; CUTTING; DIODES; DOPING (ADDITIVES); GAS LASERS; MARKING MACHINES; PUMPING (LASER); WELDING; YTTERBIUM;

AIR-CLAD FIBERS; HIGH-POWER FIBER AMPLIFIERS; HIGH-POWER FIBER LASERS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS (PCF); SUBASSEMBLIES;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 33646003606     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.660174     Document Type: Conference Paper

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