Achieving Gaussian outputs from large-mode-area higher-order-mode fibers

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 22, 2007, Pages 5147-5157

  Lindlein, Norbert ^a   Leuchs, Gerd ^a   Ramachandran, Siddharth ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b OFS LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; POWER AMPLIFIERS;

BINARY PHASE PLATES; FOURIER PLANES; HIGH-POWER LASERS; OPTICAL IMAGING SYSTEMS;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 35448951262     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.005147     Document Type: Article

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