Study of Lanthanum Aluminum Silicate Glasses for Passive and Active Optical Fibers

International Journal of Applied Glass Science

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 321-331

  Litzkendorf, Doris ^a   Grimm, Stephan ^a   Schuster, Kay ^a   Kobelke, Jens ^a   Schwuchow, Anka ^a   Ludwig, Anne ^a   Kirchhof, Johannes ^a   Leich, Martin ^a   Jetschke, Sylvia ^a   Dellith, Jan ^a   Auguste, Jean Louis ^b   Humbert, Georges ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PHOTONIC TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE OPTICAL FIBERS; ALUMINUM SILICATES; GLASS COMPOSITIONS; GOOD COMPATIBILITY; LASER OPERATIONS; SILICA CLADDING; STEP-INDEX FIBERS; STRUCTURED FIBERS;

ALUMINOSILICATES; FIBER LASERS; GLASS; LASER APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL FIBERS; SILICA; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION; YTTERBIUM;

LANTHANUM;

EID: 84877694189     PISSN: 20411286     EISSN: 20411294     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ijag.12006     Document Type: Article

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