High-power linearly-polarized operation of a cladding-pumped Yb fibre laser using a volume Bragg grating for wavelength selection

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 9507-9512

  Jeiger, P ^a   Wang, P ^b   Sahu, J K ^b   Laurell, F ^a   Clarkson, W A ^b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAGG GRATINGS; FIBER LASERS; POLARIZATION; YTTERBIUM;

BEAM PROPAGATION FACTOR; LAUNCHED PUMP POWER; LINEARLY POLARIZED; NARROW-LINE WIDTH; THERMAL LIMITATIONS; VOLUME BRAGG GRATINGS; WAVELENGTH SELECTION; WAVELENGTH-SELECTIVE ELEMENTS;

PUMPING (LASER);

SILICON DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SOLID STATE LASER; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SILICON DIOXIDE;

EID: 46149112384     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.009507     Document Type: Article

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