Highly Efficient, Incoherent Slab-Pumped Fiber Amplifier/Laser Designs

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4993, Issue , 2003, Pages 111-119

  Kouznetsov, Dmitrii ^a   Moloney, Jerome V ^a  

^a The University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Amplifiers; Doped fibers; Double clad fibers; High power fiber lasers; Slab waveguide

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); CLADDING (COATING); HIGH POWER LASERS; PUMPING (LASER); REFRACTIVE INDEX;

DOUBLE-CLAD FIBERS;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0242469210     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.479461     Document Type: Conference Paper

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