The road to kiloWatt fiber lasers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5350, Issue , 2004, Pages 172-182

  Carter, Adrian ^a   Samson, Bryce ^a   Tankala, Kanishka ^a   Machewirth, David ^a   Manyam, Upendra ^a   Abramczyk, Jaroslaw ^a   Farroni, Julia ^a   Guertin, Douglas ^a   Jacobson, Nils ^a  

^a NUFERN   (United States)

Author keywords

Double Clad (DC) fibers; Fiber laser; Large Mode Area (LMA) fiber

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE CLAD (DC) FIBERS; KILOWATT FIBER LASERS; LARGE MODE AREA (LMA) FIBERS; NONLINEAR PROCESSES;

HEAT LOSSES; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; PUMPING (LASER); RAMAN SCATTERING; RELIABILITY; SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 3543150098     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.533134     Document Type: Conference Paper

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