Dynamics and stabilization of a high power side-pumped Yb-doped double-clad fiber laser

Optics Communications

Volumn 186, Issue 4-6, 2000, Pages 311-317

  Hideur, Ammar ^a   Chartier, Thierry ^a   Özkul, Cafer ^a   Sanchez, François ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ D'ANGERS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPING (ADDITIVES); HIGH POWER LASERS; LASER PULSES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL PUMPING; YTTERBIUM;

DOUBLE-CLAD FIBER LASERS;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0034428997     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0030-4018(00)01066-X     Document Type: Article

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