High-power, high-brightness, mJ Q-switched ytterbium-doped fibre laser

Electronics Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 15, 2004, Pages 928-929

  Piper, A ^a   Malinowski, A ^a   Furusawa, K ^a   Richardson, D J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DIODES; DOPING (ADDITIVES); NEODYMIUM LASERS; PUMPING (LASER); Q SWITCHED LASERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

ACOUSTO-OPTIC MODULATOR (AOM); BEAM QUALITY; GAIN DIFFERENTIAL; WAVEPLATES;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 3843136188     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:20045661     Document Type: Article

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