Ytterbium-doped all glass leakage channel fibers with highly fluorine-doped silica pump cladding

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 8962-8969

  Dong, Liang ^a   McKay, Hugh A ^a   Fu, Libin ^a   Ohta, Michiharu ^a   Marcinkevicius, Andrius ^a   Suzuki, Shigeru ^a   Fermann, Martin E ^a  

^a IMRA AMERICA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENDING (FORMING); FIBER LASERS; FLUORINE; GLASS; SILICA; YTTERBIUM;

CONVENTIONAL FIBERS; FIBER DIAMETERS; INDEPENDENT CONTROL; INTERMODAL COUPLING; LARGE CORE FIBERS; LARGE MODE AREA FIBER; LEAKAGE CHANNELS; PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS;

FIBERS;

GLASS; SILICON DIOXIDE; YTTERBIUM;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; GLASS; LASERS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SILICON DIOXIDE; YTTERBIUM;

EID: 66449107175     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.008962     Document Type: Article

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