Sapphire-derived all-glass optical fibres

Nature Photonics

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 627-633

  Dragic, P ^a   Hawkins, T ^b   Foy, P ^b   Morris, S ^b   Ballato, J ^b  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b AMRL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINA CONCENTRATION; BRILLOUIN; BRILLOUIN FREQUENCY; BRILLOUIN GAIN; HIGH-ENERGY LASER SYSTEMS; POWER LEVELS; POWER-SCALING; USEFUL PROPERTIES;

ALUMINA; GLASS; SAPPHIRE;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 84866358334     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2012.182     Document Type: Article

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