Optical damage measurements for high peak power ytterbium doped fiber amplifiers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5991, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Webster, S ^a   McDonald, F C ^a   Villanger, A ^a   Soileau, M J ^a   Van Stryland, E W ^a   Hagan, D J ^a   McIntosh, B ^b   Torruellas, W ^b   Farroni, J ^c   Tankala, K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b FIBERTEK INC   (United States)

^c NUFERN   (United States)

Author keywords

Amplifier; Damage; Fiber; Fused silica; Optical; Preform; Ytterbium

Indexed keywords

DAMAGE; LASER FATIGUE; OPTICAL; PREFORM;

DOPING (ADDITIVES); FUSED SILICA; LASER DAMAGE; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; YTTERBIUM;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 33644595912     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.639287     Document Type: Conference Paper

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