High performance Yb-doped double-clad optical fibers for high-power, narrow-linewidth fiber laser applications

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6351 I, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Wang, Ji ^a   Gray, Stuart ^a   Walton, Donnell ^a   Li, Ming Jun ^a   Chen, Xin ^a   Boh Ruffin, A ^a   Demeritt, Jeffrey ^a   Zenteno, Luis ^a  

^a Corning Incorporated ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; BANDWIDTH; DOPING (ADDITIVES); FIBER LASERS; MULTILAYERS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

ACOUSTIC MODES; FIBER-CORE APPROACH; LARGE-MODE-AREA (LMA);

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 33845649806     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.690970     Document Type: Conference Paper

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