All-fiber tunable ytterbium-doped double-clad fiber ring laser

Optics Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 14, 2001, Pages 1054-1056

  Hideur, Ammar ^a   Chartier, Thierry ^a   Özkul, Cafer ^a   Sanchez, François ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ D'ANGERS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE-CLAD FIBERS;

DOPING (ADDITIVES); FIBER LASERS; LASER TUNING; PUMPING (LASER); SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; YTTERBIUM;

LASER OPTICS;

EID: 0000692415     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.26.001054     Document Type: Article

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