Study of lanthanum aluminum silicate glasses for passive and active optical fibers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8621, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Schuster, K ^a   Litzkendorf, D ^a   Grimm, S ^a   Kobelke, J ^a   Schwuchow, A ^a   Ludwig, A ^a   Leich, M ^a   Jetschke, S ^a   Dellith, J ^a   Auguste, J L ^b   Leparmentier, S ^b   Humbert, G ^b   Werner, G ^c  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PHOTONIC TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c Fibotec Fiberoptics   (Germany)

Author keywords

fiber laser; HMO silica fiber; loss; nonlinearity; rare earth; supercontinuum

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE OPTICAL FIBERS; ALUMINUM CONCENTRATION; ALUMINUM SILICATES; GLASS COMPOSITIONS; SILICA FIBERS; SUPER CONTINUUM; THERMAL EXPANSION COEFFICIENTS; ZERO-DISPERSION WAVELENGTH;

ALUMINOSILICATES; ALUMINUM; CHROMATIC DISPERSION; CONTROL NONLINEARITIES; DISPERSIONS; FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; GLASS; LANTHANUM ALLOYS; LASER APPLICATIONS; LOSSES; OPTICAL FIBERS; RARE EARTHS; SILICA; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION; THERMAL EXPANSION; YTTERBIUM;

LANTHANUM;

EID: 84878145459     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2004011     Document Type: Conference Paper

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