Extending effective area of fundamental mode in optical fibers

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1565-1570

  Dong, Liang ^a   McKay, Hugh A ^a   Marcinkevicius, Andrius ^a   Fu, Libin ^a   Li, Jun ^a   Thomas, Brian K ^a   Fermann, Martin E ^a  

^a IMRA AMERICA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber lasers; Optical fibers

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE POWER; CONVENTIONAL SINGLE-MODE FIBERS; DIFFRACTION LIMITED; EFFECTIVE AREA; FUNDAMENTAL MODES; HIGH POWER FIBER LASERS; LEAKAGE CHANNELS; MATERIAL PROCESSING; MODE AREA; NEW AGE; NEW CLASS; NONLINEAR EFFECT; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PULSE ENERGIES; ULTRAFAST LASER; ULTRAFAST PULSE; YTTERBIUM DOPED FIBERS;

AMPLIFICATION; FIBER OPTICS; FIBERS; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; LASERS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; SPINNING (FIBERS); ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA; YTTERBIUM;

FIBER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 66949157623     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2009.2020181     Document Type: Article

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