Ytterbium fiber laser based on first-order fiber Bragg gratings written with 400nm femtosecond pulses and a phase-mask

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 18887-18893

  Bernier, M ^a   Vallee R ^a   Morasse, B ^a,b   Desrosiers, C ^a,b   Saliminia, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b Now with CorActive High Tech Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAGG GRATINGS; ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; ULTRAFAST LASERS; ULTRASHORT PULSES; YTTERBIUM;

HIGH REFLECTIVITY; OUTPUT POWER; PHOTO-INDUCED; PHOTOINDUCED REFRACTIVE-INDEX MODULATION; SLOPE EFFICIENCIES; THERMAL-ANNEALING; YTTERBIUM FIBER LASER; YTTERBIUM-DOPED;

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS;

EID: 70350340447     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.018887     Document Type: Article

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