Power scaling of ytterbium-doped fiber superfluorescent sources

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 580-586

  Wang, Pu ^a   Sahu, Jayanta K ^a   Clarkson, W Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amplified spontaneous emission (ASE); Cladding pumping; Fiber amplifiers; Rare earth doped optical fibers; Superfluorescence

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DOPING (ADDITIVES); FIBER AMPLIFIERS; LASER CLADDING; WAVELENGTH; YTTERBIUM;

AMPLIFIED SPONTANEOUS EMISSION (ASE); PARASITIC LASING; POWER SCALING; RARE-EARTH-DOPED OPTICAL FIBERS; SUPERFLUORESCENCE;

PUMPING (LASER);

EID: 34250733011     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2007.897181     Document Type: Article

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