Improvement of optical damage in specialty fiber at 266 nm wavelength

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 8938, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Tobisch, T ^d   Ohlmeyer, H ^a,d   Zimmermann, H ^b   Prein, S ^b   Kirchhof, J ^c   Unger, S ^c   Belz, M ^d   Klein, K F ^a,d  

^a TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE MITTELHESSEN   (Germany)

^b Crylas GmbH   (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PHOTONIC TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d TransMIT GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

266 nm laser; Fiber optic delivery system; Multimode fibers; Step index fibers; UV applications; UV defects

Indexed keywords

FIBERS; LASER MATERIALS PROCESSING; NEODYMIUM LASERS; SENSORS;

DELIVERY SYSTEMS; DOUBLE CLAD FIBERS; FIBER PROCESSING; MATERIAL PROCESSING; SPECIALTY FIBER; STEP-INDEX FIBERS; UV-APPLICATIONS; UV-DEFECTS;

MULTIMODE FIBERS;

EID: 84897420460     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2041798     Document Type: Conference Paper

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