Thermo-optical behavior of rare-earth-doped low-NA fibers in high power operation

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 13, 2006, Pages 269-275

  Hadrich S ^a   Schreiber, T ^a   Pertsch, T ^a   Limpert, J ^a   Peschel, T ^b   Eberhardt, R ^b   Tunnermann A ^a,b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPING (ADDITIVES); MODAL ANALYSIS; RARE EARTH COMPOUNDS; THERMAL GRADIENTS;

NUMERICAL-APERTURE (NA) FIBERS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS;

MULTIMODE FIBERS;

EID: 33745432328     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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