High-power All-Fiber® components: The missing link for high power fiber lasers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5335, Issue , 2004, Pages 266-276

  Gonthier, François ^a   Martineau, Lilian ^a   Azami, Nawfel ^a   Faucher, Mathieu ^a   Séguin, François ^a   Stryckman, Damien ^a   Villeneuve, Alain ^a  

^a ITF Optical Technologies Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

Double clad fibers; Fiber optics components; High power fiber lasers; Multimode fiber couplers; Multimode fibers

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE-CLAD FIBERS; FIBER OPTICS COMPONENTS; HIGH-POWER FIBER LASERS; MULTIMODE FIBER COUPLERS;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; HIGH POWER LASERS; MULTIMODE FIBERS; SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 4344657875     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.548946     Document Type: Conference Paper

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