Design of all-solid leakage channel fibers with large mode area and low bending loss

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 4913-4919

  Saitoh, Kunimasa ^a   Tsuchida, Yukihiro ^a   Rosa, Lorenzo ^a   Koshiba, Masanori ^a   Poli, Federica ^b   Cucinotta, Annamaria ^b   Selleri, Stefano ^b   Pal, Mrinmay ^c   Paul, Mukul ^c   Ghosh, Debashri ^c   Bhadra, Shyamal ^c  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^c CSIR CENTRAL GLASS AND CERAMIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL METHODS; SILICA; SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

BENDING LOSS; DIFFERENT SIZES; DIFFERENTIAL MODE; DOPED SILICAS; LARGE MODE AREA; LEAKAGE CHANNELS; LOW BENDING LOSS; YB DOPED FIBER LASER;

FIBER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 62549116148     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.004913     Document Type: Article

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