The influence of index-depressions in core-pumped Yb-doped large pitch fibers

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 26, 2010, Pages 26834-26842

  Jansen, Florian ^a   Stutzki, Fabian ^a   Otto, Hans Jürgen ^a   Baumgartl, Martin ^a   Jauregui, Cesar ^a   Limpert, Jens ^a   Tünnermann, Andreas ^a,b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED OPTICS AND PRECISION ENGINEERING   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL WHISKERS; DISEASES; FIBERS; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; YTTERBIUM;

FUNDAMENTAL MODES; HIGHER-ORDER MODES; INDEX MATCHING; MODE AREA; MODE FIELD DIAMETER; PHOTONIC STRUCTURE; PITCH FIBERS; RARE EARTH DOPED;

PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS;

YTTERBIUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; YTTERBIUM;

EID: 78650528288     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.026834     Document Type: Article

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