Hybrid Ytterbium-doped large-mode-area photonic crystal fiber amplifier for long wavelengths

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 6010-6020

  Petersen, Sidsel R ^a   Alkeskjold, Thomas T ^b   Poli, Federica ^c   Coscelli, Enrico ^c   Jørgensen, Mette M ^a   Laurila, Marko ^a   Lgsgaard, Jesper ^a   Broeng, Jes ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b NKT PHOTONICS A S   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER AMPLIFIERS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS;

AIR HOLES; AMPLIFIED SPONTANEOUS EMISSIONS; COMBINED INDICES; FIBER CLADDINGS; FIBER PROPERTIES; GAIN SPECTRA; HEXAGONAL LATTICE; HIGH-INDEX; LARGE-MODE-AREA PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; LIGHT CONFINEMENTS; LONG WAVELENGTH; MAXIMUM GAIN; REDSHIFTING; SINGLE MODE OPERATION; SPECTRAL FILTERING; YTTERBIUM-DOPED;

YTTERBIUM;

YTTERBIUM;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; METHODOLOGY;

AMPLIFIERS, ELECTRONIC; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LASERS; YTTERBIUM;

EID: 84858976719     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.006010     Document Type: Article

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