Optimisation of cascaded Yb fiber amplifier chains using numerical-modelling

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 26, 2006, Pages 12846-12858

  He, F ^a   Price, J H V ^a   Vu, K T ^a   Malinowski, A ^a   Sahu, J K ^a   Richardson, D J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASCADE CONNECTIONS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTIMIZATION; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; YTTERBIUM;

LOW-ENERGY INPUT PULSES; NONLINEAR EFFECTS; SOFTWARE PACKAGES; YTTERBIUM-DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIERS;

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 33845747663     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.012846     Document Type: Article

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