Efficient and scalable side pumping scheme for short high-power optical fiber lasers and amplifiers

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 2024-2026

  Polynkin, Pavel ^a   Temyanko, Valery ^a   Mansuripur, Masud ^a   Peyghambarian, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SHORT FIBER LASERS; SIDE PUMPING;

ERBIUM; HIGH POWER LASERS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL PUMPING; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; YTTERBIUM;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 4444384043     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2004.831977     Document Type: Article

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