Title : 
Thermal resilience of polymer-coated double-clad fiber
         
        
            Author : 
Codemard, C.A. ; Shirakawa, A. ; Sahu, J.K. ; Yoo, S. ; Jeong, Y. ; Nilsson, J.
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Univ. of Southampton, Southampton, UK
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
In this paper, the authors test the thermal resilience of a polymer coated, very large-core phosphosilicate Yb-doped fiber under heavy thermal load.
         
        
            Keywords : 
fibre lasers; optical fibre cladding; optical polymers; optical testing; protective coatings; thermal conductivity; Jk:Yb; double-clad fiber; polymer-coating; thermal load; thermal resilience; Cooling; Fiber lasers; Laser excitation; Laser theory; Optical fiber testing; Polymer films; Power lasers; Pump lasers; Resilience; Thermal conductivity;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Lasers and Electro-Optics 2009 and the European Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEO Europe - EQEC 2009. European Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Munich
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-4079-5
         
        
            Electronic_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-4080-1
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/CLEOE-EQEC.2009.5192649