Dynamic Characteristics of Double-Clad Fiber Amplifiers for High-Power Pulse Amplification

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 2262-2270

  Wang, Yong ^a,b   Po, Hong ^a  

^a Lasersharp Corporation   (United States)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Double cladding; Numerical modeling; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical pulse amplifiers; Ytterbium

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; CLADDING (COATING); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; YTTERBIUM;

PULSE AMPLIFICATION;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0142165130     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2003.818166     Document Type: Article

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