Design of refractive-index and rare-earth-dopant distributions for large-mode-area fibers used in coiled high-power amplifiers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6453, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Farrow, Roger L ^a   Hadley, G Ronald ^b   Kliner, Dahv A V ^a   Koplow, Jeffrey P ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Bending effects in fibers; Fiber amplifiers; High power fiber amplifier; Large mode area fibers; Mode filtering

Indexed keywords

BEND SENSITIVITY; LARGE MODE AREA FIBERS; MODE FIELD DISPLACEMENT;

DOPING (ADDITIVES); HIGH POWER LASERS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTIMIZATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

FIBER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 34248356431     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.701594     Document Type: Conference Paper

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