Low photo darkening single mode RMO fiber

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 17855-17861

  Mattsson, Kent E ^a  

^a NKT PHOTONICS A S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS;

CO-DOPED; MODE OVERLAPS; SINGLE MODE; SLOPE EFFICIENCIES;

SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

GLASS FIBER;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICAL FIBERS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 70349667782     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.017855     Document Type: Article

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