Power scaling of cladding-pumped Er,Yb-doped fiber lasers at 1.5 μm

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5958, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-10

  Clarkson, W Andrew ^a   Shen, Deyuan ^a   Wang, Pu ^a   Cooper, Laurence J ^a   Nilsson, Johan ^a   Sahu, Jayanta K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cladding pumping; Diode pumped; Er; Fiber lasers; Solid state lasers; Yb doped fibers

Indexed keywords

CLADDING (COATING); DIODES; ERBIUM; SOLID STATE LASERS; YTTERBIUM;

CLADDING-PUMPING; DIODE-PUMPED; YB-DOPED LASERS;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 32344447225     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.623660     Document Type: Conference Paper

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