1.5 cm long single mode fiber laser made by femtosecond exposure of heavily doped erbium-ytterbium fiber

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6796, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Grobnic, Dan ^a   Mihailov, Stephen J ^a   Smelser, Christopher W ^a   Walker, Robert B ^a  

^a Radio Science Branch   (Canada)

Author keywords

Femtosecond laser machining; Fiber Bragg gratings; Fiber lasers

Indexed keywords

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; LASER MODES; PUMPING (LASER); THERMAL EFFECTS; ULTRASHORT PULSES; WAVELENGTH;

ERBIUM-YTTERBIUM FIBERS; FEMTOSECOND LASER MACHINING;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 43149095830     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.779073     Document Type: Conference Paper

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