Brillouin scattering properties of lanthano-aluminosilicate optical fiber

Applied Optics

Volumn 53, Issue 25, 2014, Pages 5660-5671

  Dragic, P D ^a   Kucera, C ^b   Ballato, J ^b   Litzkendorf, D ^c   Dellith, J ^c   Schuster, K ^c  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b Clemson University   (United States)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PHOTONIC TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; ALUMINOSILICATES; BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; FIBER LASERS; GLASS; OPTICAL FIBERS; SILICA;

BRILLOUIN; BRILLOUIN FREQUENCY; BRILLOUIN GAIN; OXIDE GLASS; SCATTERING PROPERTY; SPECIFIC EFFECTS; SPECTRAL WIDTHS; TELECOM SYSTEMS;

LANTHANUM OXIDES;

EID: 84942366832     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.53.005660     Document Type: Article

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