Two-wavelength passively Q-switched ytterbium doped fiber laser

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 11858-11870

  Pan, Lei ^a   Utkin, Ilya ^a   Fedosejevs, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; OPTICAL PUMPING; PUMPING (LASER); Q SWITCHING; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; YTTERBIUM;

DUAL WAVELENGTH; PASSIVELY Q-SWITCHED; PULSE DURATIONS; Q-SWITCHED OPERATION; STABILITY AND INSTABILITY; THEORETICAL MODELING; YB DOPED FIBER LASER; YTTERBIUM-DOPED FIBER LASERS;

PULSE REPETITION RATE;

YTTERBIUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTICS; LASERS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; YTTERBIUM;

EID: 49149098122     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.011858     Document Type: Article

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