Mode field adaptation for high power fiber lasers

Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007, CLEO 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Faucher, Mathieu ^a   Lize, Yannick Keith ^a  

^a ITF Laboratories   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALL FIBER; FABRICATION TECHNIQUE; FIBER LASERS AND AMPLIFIERS; HIGH POWER FIBER LASERS; LOW LOSS; MODE FIELDS;

FIBER AMPLIFIERS; MULTIMODE FIBERS;

FIBERS;

EID: 82955225074     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CLEO.2007.4452394     Document Type: Conference Paper

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