Experimental observations of the threshold-like onset of mode instabilities in high power fiber amplifiers

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 13218-13224

  Eidam, Tino ^a,b   Wirth, Christian ^c   Jauregui, Cesar ^a   Stutzki, Fabian ^a   Jansen, Florian ^a   Otto, Hans Jürgen ^a   Schmidt, Oliver ^c   Schreiber, Thomas ^c   Limpert, Jens ^a,b   Tünnermann, Andreas ^a,b,c  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b HELMHOLTZ INSTITUTE JENA   (Germany)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION; HIGH POWER FIBER AMPLIFIER; HIGH-POWER FIBER AMPLIFIERS; SINGLE MODE; TRANSVERSE MODE;

FIBER AMPLIFIERS;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION;

AMPLIFIERS, ELECTRONIC; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 79959891434     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.013218     Document Type: Article

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