Transverse mode competition and signal to noise ratio in few-mode fiber amplifiers

Qing LIU; An-kun WEI; Rui ZHENG; An-ting WANG; Li-xin XU; Hai MING

doi:10.3969/j.issn.1007-5461. 2012.03.008

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