All-glass large-core leakage channel fibers

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 47-53

  Dong, Liang ^a   Wu, Tsai Wei ^b   McKay, Hugh A ^a   Fu, Libin ^a   Li, Jun ^a   Winful, Herbert G ^a  

^a IMRA AMERICA INC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber lasers; Optical fibers

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; FIBER OPTICS; FIBERS; GLASS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

AIR HOLES; CONVENTIONAL FIBERS; CRYSTAL FIBERS; FUNDAMENTAL MODES; HIGHER-ORDER MODES; LARGE CORES; LEAKAGE CHANNELS; MODE AREAS; MODE DISTORTIONS; MODE FILTERING; MODE LOSS; OPTICAL FIBER AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL FIBER LASERS; RECENT PROGRESS; SINGLE-MODE OPERATIONS;

FIBER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 60049087274     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2008.2010238     Document Type: Article

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