Er-Yb double-clad fiber amplifier

Optical Engineering

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1030-1034

  Wang, Qiang ^a   Dutta, Niloy K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; APPROXIMATION THEORY; BAND STRUCTURE; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; ERBIUM; FIBER OPTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PUMPING (LASER); YTTERBIUM;

BOLTZMANN DISTRIBUTION; DOUBLE CLAD FIBER AMPLIFIER; PUMP POWER;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 3142706692     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1695402     Document Type: Article

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