Mode area scaling with all-solid photonic bandgap fibers

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 24, 2012, Pages 26363-26372

  Kong, Fanting ^a   Saitoh, Kunimasa ^b   McClane, Devon ^a   Hawkins, Thomas ^a   Foy, Paul ^a   Gu, Guancheng ^a   Dong, Liang ^a  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALL-SOLID PHOTONIC BANDGAP FIBER; ANTI-RESONANCE; DIFFERENTIAL MODE; EFFECTIVE MODE AREAS; FIBER DESIGN; FUNDAMENTAL SOLUTIONS; HIGH POWER FIBER LASERS; HIGHER-ORDER MODES; IN-FIBER; LASERS , FIBER; MODE AREA; PHYSICAL DIMENSIONS; POWER-SCALING; SINGLE MODE OPERATION; WAVEGUIDE DIMENSIONS;

FIBER LASERS; PHOTONIC BANDGAP FIBERS; WAVEGUIDES;

FIBERS;

GLASS FIBER;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; LIGHT; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; LIGHT; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTONS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84870612827     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.026363     Document Type: Conference Paper

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