Optical fibers for 355nm pulsed lasers and high-power broadband light sources

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 8576, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Heimann, Jan ^a   Klein, Karl Friedrich ^a,c   Gonschior, Cornell P ^a,c   Klein, Moritz ^c   Hillrichs, Georg ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b University of Applied Sciences Merseburg   (Germany)

^c TransMIT GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

355 nm laser; broadband light source; fiber optic delivery system; multimode fibers; step index fibers; UV applications; UV defects

Indexed keywords

355 NM LASER; BROADBAND LIGHT-SOURCE; DELIVERY SYSTEMS; STEP-INDEX FIBERS; UV-APPLICATIONS; UV-DEFECTS;

DEUTERIUM; FIBERS; LIGHT SOURCES; SENSORS;

MULTIMODE FIBERS;

EID: 84877867949     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2005146     Document Type: Conference Paper

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