Ytterbium-Doped Silica Fiber Lasers: Versatile Sources for the 1–1.2 μm Region

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 2-13

  Pask, H M ^a   Hanna, David C ^a   Tropper, Anne C ^a   Mackechnie, Colin J ^a   Barber, Paul R ^a   Dawes, Judith M ^a   Carman, Robert J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPING (ADDITIVES); LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT EMISSION; NEODYMIUM LASERS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PHONONS; PUMPING (LASER); SEMICONDUCTING ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES; SILICA; YTTERBIUM;

CONCENTRATION QUENCHING; EXCITED STATE ABSORPTION; FIBER GRATINGS; MULTIPHONON NONRADIATIVE DECAY; NEODYMIUM YTTRIUM ALUMINUM GARNET LASER; YTTERBIUM DOPED SILICA FIBER LASER;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0029288547     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: 15584542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2944.468377     Document Type: Article

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