Brillouin spectroscopy of YAG-derived optical fibers

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 10055-10067

  Dragic, P ^a   Law, P C ^a   Ballato, J ^b   Hawkins, T ^b   Foy, P ^b  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b AMRL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; ERBIUM; FIBERS; GERMANIUM; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; SILICA; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

ACOUSTIC ATTENUATION; ACOUSTIC VELOCITY; ALUMINA FIBER; BRILLOUIN GAIN; BRILLOUIN SPECTROSCOPY; BRILLOUIN SPECTRUM; GE-DOPED FIBERS; PURE SILICA; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; WEIGHT PERCENT; YAG;

YTTRIUM ALLOYS;

ALUMINUM; GLASS FIBER; YTTRIUM; YTTRIUM ALUMINUM GARNET; YTTRIUM-ALUMINUM-GARNET;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; SPECTROSCOPY;

ALUMINUM; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; OPTICAL FIBERS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; YTTRIUM;

EID: 77952727616     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.010055     Document Type: Article

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