Mode-converters for rectangular-core fiber amplifiers to achieve diffraction-limited power scaling

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 27, 2012, Pages 28792-28800

  Sridharan, Arun Kumar ^a   Pax, Paul H ^a   Heebner, John E ^a   Drachenberg, Derrek R ^a   Paul Armstrong, J ^a   Dawson, Jay W ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; DIFFRACTION; FIBER AMPLIFIERS; FIBER OPTICS; FIBERS;

DIFFRACTION LIMITED; END-USER APPLICATIONS; FOURIER PLANES; HIGHER-ORDER-MODE; MODE CONVERSIONS; POWER-SCALING; RIBBON FIBER; SEED SOURCE;

FOURIER SERIES;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FIBER OPTICS; LASER; REFRACTOMETRY;

AMPLIFIERS, ELECTRONIC; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LASERS; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 84872049025     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.028792     Document Type: Article

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