Airclad fiber laser technology

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6873, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Hansen, Kim P ^a   Olausson, Christina B ^a,b   Broeng, Jes ^a   Mattsson, Kent ^a   Nielsen, Martin D ^a   Nikolajsen, Thomas ^a   Skovgaard, Peter M W ^a   Sørensen, Mads Hoy ^a   Denninger, Mark ^a   Jakobsen, Christian ^a   Simonsen, Harald R ^a  

^a NKT PHOTONICS A S   (Denmark)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Airclad fibers; High power fiber lasers; Photonic crystal fibers

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; COMPUTER NETWORKS; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; ELECTRICITY; FIBER AMPLIFIERS; FIBER OPTICS; FIBERS; LASERS; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; PUMPING (LASER); SOLID STATE LASERS; TECHNOLOGY;

(060.2410) FIBERS; (140.3500) LASERS; (OTDR) TECHNOLOGY; BUILDING BLOCKS; FIBER TECHNOLOGY; FIBER-BASED SYSTEMS; HIGH POWER SYSTEMS; HIGH POWERS; HIGH-POWER FIBER LASERS; LASER SYSTEMS; LASER TECHNOLOGIES; POLARIZATION MAINTAINING (PM); POWER HANDLING; POWER LEVELING; SINGLE MODES; SOLID STATE LASERS;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 44949210382     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.779582     Document Type: Conference Paper

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