Highly Efficient, High-Gain, Short-Length, and Power-Scalable Incoherent Diode Slab-Pumped Fiber Amplifier/Laser

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1452-1461

  Kouznetsov, Dmitrii ^a   Moloney, Jerome V ^a  

^a The University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Double clad (DC) fiber; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber lasers

Indexed keywords

DOPING (ADDITIVES); FIBER LASERS; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; OPTICAL PUMPING; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

COUPLING EFFICIENCIES; SIGNAL DEGRADATION;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0242696156     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2003.818311     Document Type: Article

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