Broad-band diode-pumped ytterbium-doped fiber amplifier with 34-dBm output power

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 39-41

  Sousa, J M ^a   Nilsson, J ^b   Renaud, C C ^b   Alvarez Chavez, J A ^b   Grudinin, A B ^b   Minelly, J D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c Corning Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber lasers; Optical propagation in nonlinear media; Optical pulse amplifiers; Q switched lasers; Ytterbium

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; LASER MODE LOCKING; LASER PULSES; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL PUMPING; PULSE AMPLIFIERS; Q SWITCHED LASERS; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION;

AMPLIFIED SPONTANEOUS EMISSION (ASE);

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0032741330     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.736383     Document Type: Article

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