105-kW peak-power double-clad fiber laser

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 652-654

  Fan, Ya Xian ^a   Lu, Fu Yun ^a   Hu, Shu Ling ^a   Lu, Ke Cheng ^a   Wang, Hong Jie ^a   Dong, Xiao Yi ^a   Zhang, Guang Yin ^a  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Diode pumped laser; Double clad fiber (DCF) laser; Q switched laser; Stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS); Ytterbium laser

Indexed keywords

BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; GAIN MEASUREMENT; OPTICAL PUMPING; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; Q SWITCHED LASERS; Q SWITCHING; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; YTTERBIUM;

DOUBLE CLAD FIBER LASER; GAIN FIBER; PULSE DURATION; PULSE ENERGY; YTTERBIUM LASER;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0037853252     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2003.809950     Document Type: Article

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