Transmission characteristics of high-power 589-nm laser beam in photonic crystal fiber

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6272 III, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Ito, Meguru ^a,b   Hayano, Yutaka ^a   Saito, Norihito ^c   Akagawa, Kazuyuki ^d   Kato, Mayumi ^d   Saito, Yoshihiko ^a   Takazawa, Akira ^d   Takami, Hideki ^a   Iye, Masanori ^a,e   Wada, Satoshi ^c,d   Colley, Stephen A ^a   Dinkins, Mattew C ^a   Eldred, Michael ^a   Golota, Taras I ^a   Guyon, Olivier ^a   Hattori, Masayuki ^a   Oya, Shin ^a   Watanabe, Makoto ^a  

^a NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^d Megaopto Co Ltd   (Japan)

^e GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Laser guide star; Optical fiber; Polarization; Stimulated Raman Brillouin scattering; Sum frequency generation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; CRYSTALS; LIGHT TRAILERS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; POLARIZATION; RAMAN SCATTERING; THRESHOLD ELEMENTS;

FREQUENCY GENERATION; LASER GUIDE STAR (LGS); MODE FIELD DIAMETER (MFD); TRANSMISSION CHARACTERISTICS;

LASER BEAMS;

EID: 33749357267     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.671972     Document Type: Conference Paper

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