Ultra-large effective-area, higher-order mode fibers: A new strategy for high-power lasers

Laser and Photonics Reviews

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 429-448

  Ramachandran, Siddharth ^a   Fini, John M ^a   Mermelstein, Marc ^a   Nicholson, Jeffrey W ^a   Ghalmi, Samir ^a   Yan, Man F ^a  

^a OFS LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Dispersion control; Distributed coupling; Fiber amplifier; Fiber laser; High power; Mode area; Mode stability; Nonlinear distortion; Power scaling

Indexed keywords

EID: 60049094124     PISSN: 18638880     EISSN: 18638899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lpor.200810016     Document Type: Article

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