Novel suppression scheme for Brillouin scattering

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 19, 2004, Pages 4443-4448

  Wessels P ^a   Adel, P ^a   Auerbach, M ^a   Wandt, D ^a   Fallnich, C ^a  

^a LASER ZENTRUM HANNOVER E V   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); FIBER LASERS; FIBER OPTICS; FREQUENCIES; NEODYMIUM; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

BRILLOUIN-SHIFT; FIBER-BASED SYSTEMS; POWER SCALING; TWO-SEED LASERS;

BRILLOUIN SCATTERING;

EID: 6344245841     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.004443     Document Type: Article

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