Efficient high power Yb3+-silica fibre laser cladding-pumped at 1064 nm

Optics Communications

Volumn 215, Issue 4-6, 2003, Pages 381-387

  Tsang, Yuen H ^a   King, Terry A ^a   Thomas, Tristan ^a   Udell, Christopher ^a   Pierce, Mark C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cladding pump; Double clad; Fibre laser; High efficiency fibre; High power fibre; Yb; Ytterbium

Indexed keywords

CLADDING (COATING); DOPING (ADDITIVES); NEODYMIUM LASERS; PUMPING (LASER); SILICA;

PUMP SOURCES;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0037438727     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0030-4018(02)02241-1     Document Type: Article

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