Cladding pumped ytterbium-doped fiber laser with holey inner and outer cladding

Optics Express

Volumn 9, Issue 13, 2001, Pages 714-720

  Furusawa, K ^a   Malinowski, A ^a   Price, J H V ^a   Monro, T M ^a   Sahu, J K ^a   Nilsson, J ^a   Richardson, D J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); CLADDING (COATING); DOPING (ADDITIVES); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METALLORGANIC CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; Q SWITCHED LASERS; YTTERBIUM;

FIBER DESIGN AND FABRICATION; HOLEY FIBERS; LARGE MODE AREA (LMA); WAVELENGTHS;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0012695538     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.9.000714     Document Type: Article

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