Flexible hollow fiber for pulse compressors

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 3264-3268

  Nagy, Tamas ^a   Forster, Michael ^a   Simon, Peter ^a  

^a LASER LABORATORIUM GÖTTINGEN E V   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WAVEGUIDES;

DIFFRACTION LIMITED; FIBER BENDING; FIBER LENGTH; HIGH ENERGY PULSE; HOLLOW FIBER; INNER DIAMETERS; PULSE COMPRESSORS; THEORETICAL LIMITS;

FIBERS;

EID: 49649115522     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.003264     Document Type: Article

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