Yb-doped large-pitch fibres: Effective single-mode operation based on higher-order mode delocalisation

Light: Science and Applications

Volumn 1, Issue APRIL, 2012, Pages

  Limpert, Jens ^a,b,c   Stutzki, Fabian ^a   Jansen, Florian ^a   Otto, Hans Jürgen ^a   Eidam, Tino ^a,b   Jauregui, Cesar ^a   Tünnermann, Andreas ^a,b,c  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b HELMHOLTZ INSTITUTE JENA   (Germany)

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

Author keywords

High power fibre lasers and amplifiers; Higher order mode delocalisation; Photonic crystal fibre; Very large mode area

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874046621     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20477538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/lsa.2012.8     Document Type: Article

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