Fiber based generation of azimuthally polarized light

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 8237, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Jocher, Christoph ^a   Jauregui, Cesar ^a   Voigtländer, Christian ^a   Stutzki, Fabian ^a   Nolte, Stefan ^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

Fiber Bragg Grating; Fiber Optics; Radially and Azimuthally Polarization

Indexed keywords

ALL FIBER; BRAGG CONDITIONS; EFFECTIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX; FEMTOSECONDS; FIBER MODE; MODE FILTERS; POLARIZATION PURITY; POLARIZED MODES; RADIALLY POLARIZED; STEP-INDEX FIBERS;

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; FIBER LASERS; FIBER OPTICS; LASERS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; POLARIZATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

FIBERS;

EID: 84859645537     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.908341     Document Type: Conference Paper

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