Air-clad fibers: Pump absorption assisted by chaotic wave dynamics?

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 8988-8996

  Mortensen, Niels Asger ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAOTIC SYSTEMS; FIBER AMPLIFIERS; LASER CLADDING; LIGHT ABSORPTION; OPTICAL PUMPING; WAVELENGTH;

AIR-CLAD FIBERS; CHAOTIC DYNAMICS; CHAOTIC GEOMETRIES;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 34547149576     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.008988     Document Type: Article

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