Near-diffraction-limited operation of step-index large-mode-area fiber lasers via gain filtering

Optics Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1828-1830

  Marciante, John R ^a   Roides, Richard G ^a   Shkunov, Vladimir V ^b   Rockwell, David A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b RAYTHEON COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVENTIONAL FIBERS; DIFFRACTION LIMITED; EXPERIMENTAL COMPARISON; GAIN FIBERS; HIGHER-ORDER MODES; LARGE-MODE-AREA FIBER LASER; OUTPUT POWER; THEORETICAL MODELING;

FIBERS; MULTIMODE FIBERS;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 77954888761     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.35.001828     Document Type: Article

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