High-power linearly-polarized single-frequency thulium-doped fiber master-oscillator power-amplifier

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1607-1612

  Pearson, L ^a   Kim, J W ^a   Zhang, Z ^a   Ibsen, M ^a   Sahu, J K ^a   Clarkson, W A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERBIUM; FIBER AMPLIFIERS; PUMPING (LASER); THULIUM; YTTERBIUM;

BEAM PROPAGATION FACTOR; DISTRIBUTED-FEEDBACK; DOPED FIBER; HIGH-POWER; IN-BAND; INDUCED DAMAGE; OUTPUT POWER; POLARIZATION EXTINCTION RATIO; POWER-SCALING; SINGLE FREQUENCY; TM-DOPED; YB FIBER LASERS;

FIBERS;

THULIUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; OSCILLOMETRY; REFRACTOMETRY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LINEAR MODELS; OPTICAL DEVICES; OSCILLOMETRY; REFRACTOMETRY; THULIUM;

EID: 75249083040     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.001607     Document Type: Article

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