Influence of cooling on a bismuth-doped fiber laser and amplifier performance

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 31, 2009, Pages

  Kalita, Mridu P ^a   Yoo, Seongwoo ^a   Sahu, Jayanta K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISMUTH; COOLING; FIBER LASERS; FIBERS;

BISMUTH-DOPED; EXCITATION WAVELENGTH; HEAT EXTRACTION; IN-FIBER; LASER PERFORMANCE; SATURATION POWER; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT;

FIBER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 70449623667     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.000G83     Document Type: Article

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