Thermally induced waveguide changes in active fibers

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 3997-4008

  Jansen, Florian ^a   Stutzki, Fabian ^a   Otto, Hans Jürgen ^a   Eidam, Tino ^a,b   Liem, Andreas ^a,b   Jauregui, Cesar ^a   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

WAVEGUIDES;

ACTIVE FIBERS; AVOIDED CROSSINGS; CORE SIZE; EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION; FIBER DESIGN; HIGH-POWER OPERATION; LARGE MODE AREA FIBER; MODE FIELD DIAMETER; THERMALLY INDUCED;

FIBERS;

EID: 84857349313     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.003997     Document Type: Article

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