Watts-level, short all-fiber laser at 1.5 μm with a large core and diffraction-limited output via intracavity spatial-mode filtering

Optics Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 403-405

  Polynkin, Alexander ^a   Polynkin, Pavel ^a   Schülzgen, Axel ^a   Mansuripur, Masud ^a   Peyghambarian, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER SOURCES; NUMERICAL APERTURE; PUMP ABSORPTION; SPATIAL-MODE FILTERING;

DIFFRACTION; DOPING (ADDITIVES); FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; LASER BEAMS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OSCILLATIONS; PUMPING (LASER); SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 14544302200     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.30.000403     Document Type: Article

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