Title :
Microstructured fibres for high power beam delivery applications
Author :
Driscoll, E. J O ; Watson, M.A. ; Delmonte, T. ; Petrovich, M.N. ; Finazzi, V. ; Baggett, J.C. ; Monro, T.M. ; Richardson, D.J.
Author_Institution :
BAE Syst. Adv. Technol. Centre, Bristol, UK
Abstract :
We explore the potential offered by solid and air core microstructured fibres for high power applications and report the use of these fibre types in a pump delivery system for an optical parametric oscillator (OPO).
Keywords :
micro-optics; optical fibres; optical parametric oscillators; optical pumping; photonic band gap; beam delivery; microstructured fibres; optical parametric oscillator;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2005. ECOC 2005. 31st European Conference on
Conference_Location :
IET
Print_ISBN :
0-86341-543-1
