Design of a low-bending-loss large-mode-area photonic crystal fiber

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8426, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Napierała, Marek ^a,b   Bereś Pawlik, Elzbieta ^b   Nasilowski, Tomasz ^c   Mergo, Pawel ^d   Berghmans, Francis ^a   Thienpont, Hugo ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^c MILITARY UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^d MARIA CURIE SK ODOWSKA UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Fiber design and fabrication; Fiber lasers and amplifiers; Largemode area fibers; Low bending loss; Photonic crystal fibers; Single mode fibers

Indexed keywords

1064 NM; ACTIVE MEDIUM; CRUCIAL PARAMETERS; DIFFRACTION-LIMITED BEAMS; FABRICATION PROCESS; FIBER DESIGN AND FABRICATION; FIBER LASERS AND AMPLIFIERS; FUNDAMENTAL MODES; HIGH POWER FIBER LASERS; HIGHER-ORDER MODES; LARGE-MODE-AREA PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; LOW BENDING LOSS; MANUFACTURING IMPERFECTIONS; SINGLE MODE OPERATION; SINGLE-MODE GUIDANCE; STATISTICAL DESIGN;

DESIGN; FIBER AMPLIFIERS; HIGH POWER LASERS; OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

FIBERS;

EID: 84861800025     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.921780     Document Type: Conference Paper

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