Mode coupling and output beam quality of 100-400 μm core silica fibers

Applied Optics

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 492-499

  Hurand, Simon ^a,b   Chauny, Lucam A ^a,b   El Rabii, Hazem ^c   Joshi, Sachin ^a   Yalin, Azer P ^a  

^a Department of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

^b ECOLE CENTRALE PARIS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MULTIMODE FIBERS;

CORE DIAMETERS; HIGH BEAM QUALITY; MODE COUPLING; MODE COUPLING COEFFICIENT; NUMERICAL APERTURE; SILICA FIBERS; SINGLE MODE; SQUARE ROOTS;

FIBERS;

EID: 79551567100     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.50.000492     Document Type: Article

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