Kilowatt-class single-frequency fiber sources

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5709, Issue , 2005, Pages 133-141

  Payne, D N ^a,b   Jeong, Y ^a   Nilsson, J ^a,b   Sahu, J K ^a,b   Soh, D B S ^a   Alegria, C ^a   Dupriez, P ^a   Codemard, C A ^a   Philippov, V N ^a   Hernandez, V ^a   Horley, R ^b   Hickey, L ^b   Wanzcyk, L ^b   Chryssou, C E ^b   Alvarez Chavez, J A ^b   Turner, P W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b Southampton Photonics Inc   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; ELECTRIC POWER MEASUREMENT; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; HEAT LOSSES; HIGH POWER LASERS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT SCATTERING; LIGHT SOURCES; RAMAN SCATTERING; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SILICA; YTTERBIUM;

BRILLOUIN GAIN; MASTER-OSCILLATOR POWER AMPLIFIERS (MOPA); NONLINEAR SCATTERING; POWER SCALABILITY; SINGLE-FREQUENCY FIBER SOURCES;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 21844469216     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.601145     Document Type: Conference Paper

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