High power PCF-based pump combiners

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6453, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Nielsen, Martin D ^a   Soørensen, Mads H ^a   Liem, Andreas ^b   Kozak, Marcin ^b   Skovgaard, Peter M W ^a  

^a NKT PHOTONICS A S   (Denmark)

^b JENOPTIK Laser Optik Systeme GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Air cladding; Double cladding; Fiber laser; Fused fiber bundle; Photonic crystal fiber; Pump combiner

Indexed keywords

DEGRADATION; FIBER LASERS; HEATING; OPTICAL FIBERS; POWER TRANSMISSION; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

AIR CLADDING; CRITICAL HEATING; FUSED FIBER BUNDLE; OPTICAL POWERS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBER; PUMP COMBINER;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 34248350453     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.727087     Document Type: Conference Paper

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