Broadband emission from a multicore fiber fabricated with granulated oxides

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1581-1584

  Di Labio, Loredana ^a   Lüthy, Willy ^a   Romano, Valerio ^a   Sandoz, Frédéric ^b   Feurer, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b Silitec Fibers SA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERBIUM; YTTERBIUM;

BROADBAND EMISSION; FLUORESCENCE SPECTRA; MULTI CORE; MULTICORE FIBER; SINGLE PUMPS;

THULIUM;

EID: 44949222311     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.001581     Document Type: Article

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