Fiber designs for higher power lasers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6469, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Li, Ming Jun ^a   Chen, Xin ^a   Wang, Ji ^a   Liu, Anping ^a   Gray, Stuart ^a   Walton, Donnell T ^a   Boh Ruffin, A ^a   Demeritt, Jeffrey ^a   Zenteno, Luis ^a  

^a Corning Incorporated SP AR 02 2 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Fiber design; Fiber laser; Large mode area fiber; Stimulated Brillouin scattering; Stimulated raman scattering

Indexed keywords

FIBER DESIGNS; GLASS COMPOSITION; LARGE MODE AREA FIBERS;

FIBER LASERS; OPTICAL DESIGN; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; STIMULATED BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; STIMULATED RAMAN SCATTERING;

HIGH POWER LASERS;

EID: 34248655405     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.714018     Document Type: Conference Paper

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