Kinetic modeling of Q-switched high-power ytterbium-doped fiber lasers

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1404-1411

  Huo, Yanming ^a   Brown, Robert T ^b   King, George G ^a   Cheo, Peter K ^a  

^a PC Photonics Corporation   (United States)

^b RTBrown LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACOUSTOOPTICAL DEVICES; DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS; HIGH POWER LASERS; KINETIC THEORY; LASER PULSES; LIGHT PROPAGATION; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; PUMPING (LASER); Q SWITCHED LASERS;

ION POPULATION; KINETIC MODEL; Q SWITCHED MULTICORE FIBER LASER; RATE EQUATION;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 1542276686     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.001404     Document Type: Article

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