Al/Ge co-doped large mode area fiber with high SBS threshold

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 8290-8299

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

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; ALUMINUM; BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; COBALT; DOPING (ADDITIVES); GERMANIUM; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

CLAD FIBERS; RELATIVE DOPING; SCANNING ACOUSTIC MICROSCOPES;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 34250876775     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.008290     Document Type: Article

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