Ms. Courtney Kucera Profile

Courtney Kucera

at Clemson Univ

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Publications (7)

Proceedings Article | 9 March 2020 Presentation

Luminescence-quenched ytterbium-doped optical fiber microheater and its applications (Conference Presentation)

Nanjie Yu, Matthew Tuggle, Andrey Mironov, Sehyun Park, Jane Gragg, Courtney Kucera, Thomas Hawkins, Gary James Eden, John Ballato, Peter Dragic

Proceedings Volume 11298, 1129802 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2542867

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Proceedings Article | 14 May 2019 Presentation

Progress towards the development of intrinsically low-nonlinearity optical fibers (Conference Presentation)

Peter Dragic, Maxime Cavillon, Courtney Kucera, Baris Kokuoz, Thomas Hawkins, John Ballato

Proceedings Volume 10981, 1098109 (2019) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2521950

KEYWORDS: Optical fibers, Glasses, Raman scattering, Laser applications, Fiber lasers, Laser systems engineering, Laser scattering, Scattering, Photoelasticity, Thermal optics

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Proceedings Article | 17 May 2018 Open Access

A unified materials approach to mitigating optical nonlinearities in fiber lasers

John Ballato, Maxime Cavillon, Peter Dragic, Courtney Kucera, Thomas Hawkins

Proceedings Volume 10683, 1068302 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2307163

KEYWORDS: Glasses, Fluorine, Optical fibers, Silica, Nonlinear optics, Refractive index, Fiber lasers, Aluminum, Cladding, Raman scattering

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Proceedings Article | 17 May 2018 Presentation + Paper

Thulium-doped nanoparticles and their properties in silica-based optical fibers

M. Vermillac, J.-F. Lupi, H. Fneich, J. Turlier, M. Cabié, C. Kucera, D. Borschneck, F. Peters, S. Chaussedent, P. Vennéguès, D. Neuville, A. Mehdi, J. Ballato, W. Blanc

Proceedings Volume 10683, 106831F (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2310011

KEYWORDS: Doping, Nanoparticles, Lanthanum, Thulium, Aluminum, Ions, Optical fibers, Silica, Scanning electron microscopy, Spectroscopy

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Proceedings Article | 14 May 2018 Presentation

Recent advances in holmium doped fibers for high-energy lasers (Conference Presentation)

Colin Baker, E. Joseph Friebele, Ashley Burdett, L. Brandon Shaw, Steven Bowman, Woohong Kim, Jasbinder Sanghera, John Ballato, Courtney Kucera, Amber Vargas, Alexander Hemming, Nikita Simikov, John Haub

Proceedings Volume 10637, 1063704 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2310134

KEYWORDS: Holmium, Nanoparticles, Laser energy, Fiber lasers, Silica, Phonons, Laser applications, Laser safety, Directed energy weapons, Eye

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Proceedings Article | 7 March 2017 Paper

Ho-nanoparticle-doping for improved high-energy laser fibers

E. Joseph Friebele, Colin Baker, Ashley Burdett, Daniel Rhonehouse, Steven Bowman, Woohong Kim, Jasbinder Sanghera, Courtney Kucera, Amber Vargas, John Ballato, Alexander Hemming, Nikita Simakov, John Haub

Proceedings Volume 10100, 1010003 (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2255775

KEYWORDS: Nanoparticles, Ions, Doping, Fiber lasers, Silica, Optical fibers, Holmium, Neptunium, Absorption, Lutetium

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