Double-clad fiber amplifier for broadband tunable ytterbium-doped oxyorthosilicates lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 25, 2007, Pages 16754-16759

  Hao, Qiang ^a   Li, Wenxue ^a   Zeng, Heping ^a  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER AMPLIFIERS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; YTTERBIUM;

BROADBAND TUNABLE YTTERBIUM-DOPED OXYORTHOSILICATES LASERS; DOUBLE-CLAD FIBER AMPLIFIER;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 37149054604     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.016754     Document Type: Article

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