All-glass PM leakage channel fibers with up to 80μm core diameters for high gain and high peak power fiber amplifiers

Optics InfoBase Conference Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Fu, Libin ^a   McKay, Hugh A ^a   Suzuki, Shigeru ^a   Ohta, Michiharu ^a   Dong, Liang ^a  

^a IMRA AMERICA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLASS;

AVERAGE POWER; CORE DIAMETERS; DOUBLE-CLAD; HIGH PEAK POWER; LEAKAGE CHANNELS; PEAK POWER; SINGLE MODE; YTTERBIUM-DOPED;

FIBER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 85087599661     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21622701     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1364/assp.2009.mf3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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