Numerical modeling of transverse mode competition in strongly pumped multimode fiber lasers and amplifiers

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 3236-3246

  Mali, Gong ^a   Yanyang, Yuan ^a   Chen, Li ^a   Ping, Yan ^a   Haitao, Zhang ^a   Suying, Liao ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIBER LASERS; GAIN CONTROL; OPTICAL PUMPING; POWER AMPLIFIERS;

MULTIMODE FIBER LASERS; NUMERICAL ALGORITHMS; TRANSVERSE MODE (TM);

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 33947389634     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.003236     Document Type: Article

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