Fiber design for high-power fiber lasers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7195, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Sahu, Jayanta K ^a   Yoo, Seongwoo ^a   Boyland, Alexander J ^a   Webb, Andrew S ^a   Kalita, Mridu ^a   Maran, Jean Noel ^b   Jeong, Yoonchan ^a   Nilsson, Johan ^a   Clarkson, W Andrew ^a   Payne, David N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b Coreactive ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

Fiber design; Fiber laser; Nonlinear optics

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FIBERS; FIBER DESIGN; HIGH POWER FIBER LASERS; HIGH-POWER; IN-FIBER; NON-LINEARITY; POWER-SCALING; THREE LEVEL SYSTEMS;

CONTROL NONLINEARITIES; DC GENERATORS; DESIGN; FIBERS; LASERS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL MATERIALS;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 65649106145     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.809210     Document Type: Conference Paper

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