All-fiber clad-pumped Tm3+-doped fiber amplifier using high power fiber combiner

Laser Physics

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2197-2199

  Zhang, Y ^a   Jing, T ^b  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b QUANZHOU NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALL FIBER; CONTINUOUS WAVES; DIODE LASERS; DOPED FIBER; DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIER; DOUBLE-CLAD; GAIN FIBERS; HIGH-POWER; LASER LINE-WIDTH; NARROW-LINE WIDTH; OSCILLATION POWER; OUTPUT POWER; OUTPUT WAVELENGTHS; SLOPE EFFICIENCIES;

FIBER AMPLIFIERS; LADDER NETWORKS; POWER AMPLIFIERS; PUMPING (LASER);

FIBERS;

EID: 72849128409     PISSN: 1054660X     EISSN: 15556611     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1134/S1054660X09230108     Document Type: Article

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