Bend distortion in large-mode-area amplifier fiber design

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6781, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Fini, John M ^a  

^a OFS LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Fiber amplifiers and lasers; Fiber design

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONICS PACKAGING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL DESIGN; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

FIBER DESIGN;

FIBER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 42549141802     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.745949     Document Type: Conference Paper

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