Yb-boped LMA triple-clad fiber for power amplifiers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6453, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Laperle, Pierre ^a   Paré, Claude ^a   Zheng, Huimin ^a   Croteau, André ^a  

^a INO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fiber amplifier; Large mode area; Stimulated Brillouin scattering; Triple clad; Ytterbium

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; OPTICAL DESIGN; POWER AMPLIFIERS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; STIMULATED BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; YTTERBIUM;

ACOUSTIC FIELD DISTRIBUTIONS; LARGE MODE AREA; LARGE MODE AREA (LMA); TRIPLE CLAD FIBERS;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 34248365726     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.699075     Document Type: Conference Paper

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