A Cladding-Pumped Fiber Laser With Pump-Reflecting Inner-Cladding Bragg Grating

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 407-409

  Baek, Seungin ^a,b   Soh, Daniel B S ^a   Jeong, Yoonchan ^a   Sahu, Jayanta K ^a   Nilsson, Johan ^a   Lee, Byoungho ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Fiber Bragg grating (FBG); Fiber laser; Inner cladding; Pump absorption

Indexed keywords

CLADDING (COATING); ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; LIGHT SOURCES; PUMPING (LASER); RESONANCE; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING;

CLADDING-PUMPED FIBER LASERS; INNER CLADDING; PUMP ABSORPTION;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 1442313170     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2003.823135     Document Type: Article

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