Self pulsing versus self locking in a cw pumped neodymium doped double clad fiber laser

Optics Communications

Volumn 161, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 345-358

  Glas, P ^a   Naumann, M ^a   Schirrmacher, A ^a   Daweritz L ^b   Hey, R ^b  

^a MAX BORN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b PAUL DRUDE INSTITUT FÜR FESTKÖRPERELEKTRONIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; LASER MODE LOCKING; LIGHT POLARIZATION; NEODYMIUM; OPTICAL PUMPING; OPTICALLY PUMPED LASERS; OSCILLATIONS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING;

CONTINUOUS WAVE DIODE PUMPED DOUBLE CLAD FIBER LASERS; MULTIMODE LASERS;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0032644327     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0030-4018(99)00029-2     Document Type: Article

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