Highly efficient 70W all-fibre tm-doped laser system operating at 1908nm

2008 Joint Conference of the Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference and the Australian Conference On Optical Fibre Technology, OECC/ACOFT 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Frith, Gavin ^a   Carter, Adrian ^a   Samson, Bryce ^a   Farroni, Julia ^a   Farley, Kevin ^a   Tankala, Kanishka ^a  

^a NUFERN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL MATERIALS;

AT WAVELENGTHS; DEVICE DESIGNS; EFFICIENT; HIGHLY EFFICIENT; LASER SYSTEMS; SLOPE EFFICIENCIES;

FIBERS;

EID: 54049088999     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/OECCACOFT.2008.4610638     Document Type: Conference Paper

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