Diffraction-limited fundamental mode operation of core-pumped very-large-mode-area Er fiber amplifiers

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 3-11

  Jasapara, Jayesh C ^a   Andrejco, Matt J ^a   Desantolo, Anthony ^a   Yablon, Andrew D ^a   Várallyay, Zoltán ^b   Nicholson, Jeffrey W ^a   Fini, John M ^a   Digiovanni, David J ^a   Headley, Clifford ^a   Monberg, Eric ^a   Dimarcello, Frank V ^a  

^a OFS LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b Furukawa Electric Institute of Technology Hungary   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Core pumping; Differential gain; Er fiber amplifier; Large mode area fiber; Picosecond pulse amplification; Raman laser

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; DIFFRACTION; ERBIUM; FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; LASERS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; PULSE AMPLIFIERS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; PUMPING (LASER); PUMPS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

CORE PUMPING; DIFFERENTIAL GAIN; ER FIBER AMPLIFIER; LARGE-MODE-AREA FIBER; PICOSECOND PULSE AMPLIFICATION; RAMAN LASER;

FIBER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 60049095035     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2008.2010262     Document Type: Article

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