Thermo-optical effects in high-power Ytterbium-doped fiber amplifiers

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 23965-23980

  Hansen, Kristian Rymann ^a   Alkeskjold, Thomas Tanggaard ^b   Broeng, Jes ^b   Lægsgaard, Jesper ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b NKT PHOTONICS A S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REFRACTIVE INDEX; YTTERBIUM;

BEAM PROPAGATION; EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE; EFFECTIVE MODE AREAS; HIGH-POWER; MULTIMODES; SINGLE MODE; THERMAL LENSING EFFECT; THERMALLY INDUCED; THERMO-OPTICAL EFFECTS; YTTERBIUM DOPED FIBERS;

FIBER AMPLIFIERS;

YTTERBIUM;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AMPLIFIERS, ELECTRONIC; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TEMPERATURE; YTTERBIUM;

EID: 82055186731     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.023965     Document Type: Article

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