Photo darkening of ytterbium cw fiber lasers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7195, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Mattsson, Kent E ^a   Broeng, Jes ^a  

^a NKT PHOTONICS A S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Fiber amplifier; Fiber laser; Photo darkening

Indexed keywords

CO-DOPED; CO-DOPING; LONG TERM; MODEL DESCRIPTION; PHOTO DARKENING; SIGNAL RADIATION; SILICA FIBRES; SLOPE EFFICIENCIES;

DOPING (ADDITIVES); FIBER AMPLIFIERS; LASERS; SILICA; YTTERBIUM;

FIBERS;

EID: 65649143836     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.808216     Document Type: Conference Paper

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