Large-mode-area ytterbium-doped fiber amplifier with distributed narrow spectral filtering and reduced bend sensitivity

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 16394-16405

  Alkeskjold, Thomas Tanggaard ^a  

^a NKT PHOTONICS A S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBERS; FOUR WAVE MIXING; YTTERBIUM;

AMPLIFIED SPONTANEOUS EMISSIONS; LARGE MODE AREA; LONG WAVELENGTH; MODE FIELD DIAMETER; POLARIZATION MAINTAINING; SLOPE EFFICIENCIES; SPECTRAL FILTERING; YTTERBIUM DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIER;

FIBER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 70349201274     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.016394     Document Type: Article

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