Continuous wave single transverse mode laser oscillation in a Nd-doped large core double clad fiber cavity with concatenated adiabatic tapers

Optics Communications

Volumn 213, Issue 1-3, 2002, Pages 33-37

  Jeong, H ^a   Choi, S ^a   Oh, K ^a  

^a Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Adiabatic taper; Beam propagation method; Clad pumped fiber laser; Nd doped fiber laser; Optical feedback; Single transverse mode; Slope efficiency

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); NEODYMIUM; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL PUMPING; SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

CLAD-PUMPED FIBER LASERS (CPFL); OPTICAL FEEDBACK;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0037111363     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0030-4018(02)02052-7     Document Type: Article

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