Build up and decay of mode instability in a high power fiber amplifier

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 13274-13283

  Haarlammert, Nicoletta ^a   De Vries, Oliver ^a   Liem, Andreas ^a   Kliner, Andrea ^b   Peschel, Thomas ^a   Schreiber, Thomas ^a   Eberhardt, Ramona ^a   Tünnermann, Andreas ^a,b  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED OPTICS AND PRECISION ENGINEERING   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

DRIVING MECHANISM; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; HIGH POWER FIBER AMPLIFIER; HIGH-POWER; LARGE MODE AREA FIBER; MILLISECOND RANGE; PERFORMANCE LEVEL; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; TIME-RESOLVED; TIME-SCALES;

YTTERBIUM;

EID: 84863766285     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.013274     Document Type: Article

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