Slab delivery of incoherent pump light to double-clad fiber amplifiers: Numerical simulations

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1301-1305

  Kano, Patrick ^a   Kouznetsov, Dmitrii ^a,b   Moloney, Jerome V ^a   Brio, Moysey ^a  

^a The University of Arizona   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLADDING (COATING); COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL PUMPING; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

DOUBLE CLAD FIBER; SCALAR PARAXIAL BEAM PROPAGATION EQUATION; TAPERED SLAB GEOMETRY;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 4544247580     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2004.833232     Document Type: Article

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