Compact high-power tunable three-level operation of double cladding Nd-doped fiber laser

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 306-308

  Fu, L B ^a,b   Ibsen, M ^a   Richardson, D J ^a   Nilsson, J ^a   Payne, D N ^a   Grudinin, A B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c NKT PHOTONICS A S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Double cladding fiber laser; Nd fiber laser; Three level transition; Tunable laser

Indexed keywords

CLADDING (COATING); CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; LASER TUNING; NEODYMIUM; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING;

DOUBLE CLADDING FIBER LASER; THREE LEVEL TRANSITION; TUNABLE LASER;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 13444257779     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2004.840034     Document Type: Article

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