Low photodarkening single cladding ytterbium fibre amplifier

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6453, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Morasse, Bertrand ^a   Chatigny, Stéphane ^a   Gagnon, Éric ^a   Hovington, Carl ^a   Martin, J Philippe ^a   De Sandro, J Philippe ^a  

^a CorActive High Tech ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

Clustering; Co doping; Fibre amplifier; Photodarkening; Ytterbium

Indexed keywords

LASER CLADDING; LUMINESCENCE; OPTICAL PUMPING; PHOTOCHROMISM; PHOTOEXCITATION; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; YTTERBIUM;

CODOPING; CORE PUMPING; YTTERBIUM CLUSTERS; YTTERBIUM DOPED FIBERS;

FIBER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 34248382195     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.700529     Document Type: Conference Paper

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