Q-switching of Yb3+-doped fiber laser using a novel micro-optical waveguide on micro-actuating platform light modulator

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 25, 2005, Pages 10302-10309

  Joeng, Yunsong ^a   Kim, Youngbok ^a   Liem, Andreas ^b   Moerl, Klaus ^b   Hoefer, Sven ^b   Tuennermann, Andreas ^b   Oh, Kyunghwan ^a  

^a Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)   (South Korea)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PHOTONIC TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; LASERS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; YTTERBIUM;

FUSED BICONICAL TAPER (FBI); LASER CAVITY; PULSE ENERGY;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 28944436032     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.010302     Document Type: Article

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