High power fiber lasers: New developments

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4974, Issue , 2003, Pages 50-59

  Nilsson, Johan ^a,b   Sahu, Jayanta K ^a,b   Jeong, Yoonchan ^a   Clarkson, W Andy ^a   Selvas, Romeo ^a   Grudinin, Anatoly B ^a   Alam, Shaif Ul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b Southampton Photonics Inc   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diode pumping; Fiber laser; Power scaling; Wavelength tuning

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; ERBIUM; LASER TUNING; NEODYMIUM LASERS; PUMPING (LASER); SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; YTTERBIUM;

PUMP POWER; WAVELENGTH TUNING;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0344420178     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.478310     Document Type: Conference Paper

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