Thermal effects in high power cw fiber lasers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7195, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Lapointe, Marc André ^a   Chatigny, Stephane ^a   Piché, Michel ^a   Cain Skaff, Michael ^a   Maran, Jean Noël ^a  

^a CorActive High Tech ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

Acrylate degradation; Cooling designs; High power CW fiber lasers; Optical fiber splices; Thermal contact resistance; Thermal effects; Thermal measurements

Indexed keywords

ACRYLATE DEGRADATION; COOLING DESIGNS; HIGH POWER CW FIBER LASERS; OPTICAL FIBER SPLICES; THERMAL CONTACT RESISTANCE; THERMAL MEASUREMENTS;

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; CONTACT RESISTANCE; COOLING; DC GENERATORS; DEGRADATION; FIBER LASERS; HEAT CONDUCTION; HEAT RESISTANCE; LASERS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF SOLIDS; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

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EID: 65649121138     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.809021     Document Type: Conference Paper

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