High-power wavelength-tunable cladding-pumped rare-earth-doped silica fiber lasers

Optical Fiber Technology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 5-30

  Nilsson, J ^a   Clarkson, W A ^a   Selvas, R ^a   Sahu, J K ^a   Turner, P W ^b   Alam, S U ^b   Grudinin, A B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b Southampton Photonics Inc   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diode pumped lasers; Double clad fiber; Erbium; Fiber laser; Laser tuning; Neodymium; Thulium; Ytterbium

Indexed keywords

CLADDING (COATING); DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); FEEDBACK; OPTICAL FIBERS; PRODUCT DESIGN; PUMPING (LASER); RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; TUNING;

OUTPUT POWER; WAVELENGTHS;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0347355131     PISSN: 10685200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yofte.2003.07.001     Document Type: Article

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