Optimized fiber delivery system for Q-switched Nd:YAG lasers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 2966, Issue , 1997, Pages 608-619

  Setchell, Robert E ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

High intensity fiber transmission; Laser damage in optical fibers

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; FUSED SILICA; LASER BEAMS; LASER DAMAGE; LASERS; NEODYMIUM; NEODYMIUM LASERS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; Q SWITCHED LASERS; Q SWITCHING; SILICA; VEHICULAR TUNNELS;

APPLICATIONS.; DAMAGE EVENTS; DAMAGE PROCESSES; DAMAGE THRESHOLDS; ENTRANCE AND EXIT FACES; FIBER AXIS; FIBER DAMAGES; FIBER DELIVERIES; FIBER MATERIALS; FIBER PATHS; FIXTURING; FLUENCES; GAUSSIAN PROFILES; HIGH INTENSITIES; HIGH-INTENSITY FIBER TRANSMISSION; INCIDENT LASER BEAMS; INJECTION SYSTEMS; LASER CHARACTERISTICS; LASER ENERGIES; LIMITING PROCESSES; MECHANICAL POLISHING; MODE POWER DISTRIBUTIONS; MODE SCRAMBLERS; MULTIMODE; MULTIMODE LASERS; ND:YAG LASERS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; PROOF TESTS; SILICA FIBERS; STRENGTH CHARACTERISTICS; SURFACE MODIFICATIONS; THRESHOLD DATUMS; TRANSMISSION FAILURES; TRANSMISSION LIMITATIONS;

FIBERS;

EID: 58149289982     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.274264     Document Type: Conference Paper

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