Power and energy scaling of fiber laser systems based on ytterbium-doped large-mode-area fibers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4974, Issue , 2003, Pages 135-147

  Limpert, J ^a   Liem, A ^a   Schreiber, T ^a   Zellmer, H ^a   Tunnermann A ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fiber design; Fiber lasers and amplifiers; High energy nanosecond pulses; Nonlinear fiber optics; Single frequency radiation; Ytterbium

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; CLADDING (COATING); CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); LASER BEAMS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; YTTERBIUM;

FIBER DESIGN; HIGH ENERGY NANOSECOND PULSES; SINGLE FREQUENCY RADIATION;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0344851696     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.484165     Document Type: Conference Paper

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