Single-frequency, Yb-free, resonantly cladding-pumped large mode area Er fiber amplifier for power scaling

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Dubinskii, Mark ^a   Zhang, Jun ^a   Kudryashov, Igor ^b  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON LIGHTWAVE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; ERBIUM; FIBER AMPLIFIERS; FIBER LASERS; FIBER OPTICS; SUGAR (SUCROSE); YTTERBIUM;

AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS (AIP); DIFFRACTION LIMITED; DOUBLE-CLAD; ER-DOPED; ERBIUM DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIER (EDFA); LARGE MODE AREA (LMA); LARGE MODE AREA (LMA) FIBERS; NUMERICAL APERTURE (NA); POWER OUTPUTS; POWER SCALING; SINGLE-FREQUENCY; SLOPE EFFICIENCIES;

CLADDING (COATING);

EID: 48249139917     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2964189     Document Type: Article

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