New high power rare-earth-doped fiber laser materials and architectures

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4974, Issue , 2003, Pages 177-183

  Myers, John D ^a   Wu, Ruikun ^a   Chen, TaoLue ^a   Myers, Michael J ^a   Hardy, Christopher R ^a   Driver, John K ^a   Tate, Ralph ^b  

^a Kigre Inc   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cladding pump; Double clad; Fiber laser; Rare earth doped fiber

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; GLASS; OPTICAL DESIGN; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

CLADDING PUMP; LASER EMISSION; RARE-EARTH-DOPED FIBER LASER MATERIALS;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0344420168     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.484168     Document Type: Conference Paper

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