End-pumped 300 W continuous-wave ytterbium-doped all-fiber laser with master oscillator multistage power amplifiers configuration

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 17864-17869

  Yin, Shupeng ^a   Yan, Ping ^a   Gong, Mali ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; POWER AMPLIFIERS; PUMPING (LASER); YTTERBIUM;

ALL-FIBER LASERS; CONTINUOUS WAVE; LASER SYSTEMS; MASTER OSCILLATORS; MULTI STAGE; OPTICAL-OPTICAL EFFICIENCY; PUMP POWER; YTTERBIUM-DOPED;

FIBER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 55349096146     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.017864     Document Type: Article

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