Optical damage limits to pulse energy from fibers

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 153-158

  Smith, Arlee V ^a   Do, Binh T ^b   Hadley, G Ronald ^c   Farrow, Roger L ^d  

^a AS Photonics   (United States)

^b AEROSPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

^c SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^d SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Optical fiber amplifiers

Indexed keywords

BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; SILICA; ULTRASONICS;

BRILLOUIN; DAMAGE THRESHOLDS; FLUENCES; NON-LINEAR PROCESS; OPTICAL DAMAGES; OPTICAL FIBER AMPLIFIERS; POWER LIMITS; PULSE ENERGIES; PULSED FIBER LASERS; SELF-FOCUSING;

FIBER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 60049087268     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2008.2010331     Document Type: Article

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