Ytterbium-doped fiber amplifiers

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1049-1056

  Paschotta, Rüdiger ^a,b,d   Nilsson, Johan ^a,c,e,f,g   Tropper, Anne C ^a   Hanna, David C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

^c SAMSUNG Electronics   (South Korea)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^e CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^f ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^g Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Fiber amplifiers

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; AMPLIFICATION; BANDWIDTH; BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; DOPING (ADDITIVES); EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; LIGHT EMISSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL PUMPING; YTTERBIUM;

YTTERBIUM DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIERS;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0031192283     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.594865     Document Type: Article

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