Reduction of photodarkening in Yb/Al-doped fiber lasers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6873, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Engholm, Magnus ^a,b   Norin, Lars ^b  

^a MID SWEDEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b ACREO AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Charge transfer; Fiber lasers; Photodarkening; Ytterbium

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; EXPERIMENTS; FIBER OPTICS; FIBERS; FORMING; GLASS; HYDROGEN; LASERS; OPTICAL LOSSES; PREFORMING; SILICATES; TECHNOLOGY;

(140.3500) LASERS; (OTDR) TECHNOLOGY; CHARGE TRANSFER BAND (CTB); DOPED FIBERS; HIGH POWERS; HIGH-POWER FIBER LASERS; HYDROGEN LOADINGS; OPTICAL (PET) (OPET); PRESSURE CHAMBERS; REDUCING ATMOSPHERES; ROOM-TEMPERATURE (RT); SILICATE GLASSES; UV IRRADIATIONS; YB DOPED FIBERS; YTTERBIUM ION;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 44949237937     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.763218     Document Type: Conference Paper

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