Codoped materials for high power fiber lasers - Diffusion behaviour and optical properties

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6469, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Unger, Sonja ^a   Schwuchow, Anka ^a   Dellith, Jan ^a   Kirchhof, Johannes ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PHOTONIC TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aluminium; Attenuation; Diffusion; Fiber laser; High silica glass; Phosphorus; Rare earth doping; Refractive index

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; DIFFUSION; DOPING (ADDITIVES); FLUORESCENCE; OPTICAL FIBERS; QUARTZ; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

ATTENUATION; CODOPED MATERIALS; HIGH-SILICA-GLASS; QUARTZ GLASS; RARE EARTH DOPING;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 34248649322     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.700161     Document Type: Conference Paper

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