High-peak-power (>1.2 MW) pulsed fiber amplifier

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6102, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Farrow, Roger L ^a   Kliner, Dahv A V ^a   Schrader, Paul E ^a   Hoops, Alexandra A ^a   Moore, Scan W ^a   Hadley, G Ronald ^b   Schmitt, Randal L ^b  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Bend loss; Fiber amplifier; High peak power fiber amplifier; Large mode area amplifier; Mode filtering; Pulsed fiber amplifier; Yb

Indexed keywords

BEND LOSS; DIFFRACTION-LIMITED BEAM; HIGH-PEAK-POWER FIBER AMPLIFIERS; LARGE-MODE-AREA AMPLIFIER; MODE FILTERING; OPTICAL DAMAGE; PULSE ENVELOPE; PULSED FIBER AMPLIFIER; STIMULATED BRILLOUIN SCATTERING;

DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; LASER DAMAGE; LASER MODES; LASER PULSES; LASER THEORY; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PUMPING (LASER); YTTERBIUM;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 33645958624     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.646815     Document Type: Conference Paper

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