Impacts of cavity losses on cw Raman fiber lasers

Optical Engineering

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 2872-2879

  Wang, Yong ^a   Po, Hong ^a  

^a Lasersharp Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Conversion efficiency; Fiber Bragg grating; Fiber lasers; Simulation; Stimulated Raman scattering

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; RAMAN SCATTERING;

CAVITY LOSSES; LASER CAVITY; RAMAN FIBER LASERS;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0344515650     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1602088     Document Type: Article

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