Photodarkening in Yb doped fibers: Experimental evidence of equilibrium states depending on the pump power

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 22, 2007, Pages 14838-14843

  Jetschke, Sylvia ^a   Unger, Sonja ^a   Röpke, Ulrich ^a   Kirchhof, Johannes ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PHOTONIC TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPING (ADDITIVES); OPTICAL PUMPING; PHOTOCHROMISM; YTTERBIUM;

PUMP POWER; YB INVERSION;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 35948943548     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.014838     Document Type: Article

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