Linewidth of high-power fiber lasers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7386, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Lapointe, Marc André ^a,b   Piché, Michel ^b  

^a CorActive High Tech ^*  (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

High power CW fiber lasers; Laser linewidth; Spectral broadening; Yb doped fibers

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL MODEL; ER-DOPED FIBER LASER; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; HIGH POWER FIBER LASERS; HIGH-POWER; HIGH-POWER CW FIBER LASERS; LASER CAVITY; LASER LINEWIDTH; LASER POWER; LONGITUDINAL MODES; LOW POWER; NARROW BANDWIDTH; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; POWER FUNCTIONS; POWER LEVELS; RAMAN FIBER LASERS; SIMPLE MODIFICATIONS; SPECTRAL BROADENING; SQUARE ROOTS; YB-DOPED FIBER LASERS; YB-DOPED FIBERS;

ERBIUM; FIBERS; FOUR WAVE MIXING; LASERS; LINEWIDTH; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; SIMULATORS; YTTERBIUM;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 70449580908     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.839770     Document Type: Conference Paper

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