Effectively single-mode all-solid photonic bandgap fiber with large effective area and low bending loss for compact high-power all-fiber lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 15061-15070

  Kashiwagi, Masahiro ^a   Saitoh, Kunimasa ^b   Takenaga, Katsuhiro ^a   Tanigawa, Shoji ^a   Matsuo, Shoichiro ^a   Fujimaki, Munehisa ^a  

^a FUJIKURA LTD   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; PHOTONIC BANDGAP FIBERS;

1064 NM; ALL-FIBER LASERS; ALL-SOLID PHOTONIC BANDGAP FIBER; BENDING LOSS; BENDING RADIUS; EFFECTIVE AREA; FIBER PARAMETERS; HIGH-POWER; LARGE EFFECTIVE AREAS; LOW BENDING LOSS; PITCH DEPENDENCY; SINGLE MODE; SINGLE MODE OPERATION;

FIBERS;

EID: 84863767441     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.015061     Document Type: Article

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