Effective absorption in cladding-pumped fibers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7914, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Zervas, Michalis N ^a,b   Marshall, Andy ^a   Kim, Jaesun ^a  

^a Swift Valley Industrial Estate   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Beer s law; cladding pumped fibers; coupled mode theory; fiber amplifiers; fibre lasers

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION EFFICIENCY; ABSORPTION PEAKS; BEER-S LAW; CLADDING PUMPED FIBERS; COUPLED-MODE THEORY; DOPED FIBER; EFFECTIVE ABSORPTION; FIBRE LASERS; LASER PERFORMANCE; MULTIMODES; NOVEL THEORETICAL APPROACHES; PUMP ABSORPTION; SPECTRAL ABSORPTIONS; SPECTRAL DISTRIBUTION; WAVELENGTH DEPENDENCE;

ABSORPTION; FIBER AMPLIFIERS; MULTIMODE FIBERS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; YTTERBIUM;

FIBERS;

EID: 79955857392     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.877790     Document Type: Conference Paper

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