Narrow-line ytterbium fiber master-oscillator power amplifier

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 981-991

  Brilliant, Nathan A ^a   Beach, Raymond J ^b   Drobshoff, Alexander D ^b   Payne, Stephen A ^b  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ERBIUM; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC);

SINGLE FREQUENCY LASERS;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 0141789660     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.19.000981     Document Type: Article

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