Power-scalable long-wavelength Yb-doped photonic bandgap fiber sources

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7580, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Olausson, Christina B ^a,b,c   Shirakawa, Akira ^a   Maruyama, Hiroki ^a   Ueda, Ken Ichi ^a   Lyngsø, Jens K ^b,c   Broeng, Jes ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^b NKT PHOTONICS A S   (Denmark)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Fiber amplifier; Fiber laser; Photonic bandgap fiber; Photonic crystal fiber

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIED SPONTANEOUS EMISSIONS; FILTERING EFFECTS; FREQUENCY-DOUBLING; GAIN BAND; GAIN SPECTRA; HIGH POWER AMPLIFICATION; LONG WAVELENGTH; POWER-SCALING; SATURATED GAIN; YTTERBIUM-DOPED;

AMPLIFICATION; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; CRYSTAL WHISKERS; ENERGY GAP; FIBER AMPLIFIERS; FIBER OPTIC COMPONENTS; FIBERS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; YTTERBIUM;

PHOTONIC BANDGAP FIBERS;

EID: 77951783829     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.845938     Document Type: Conference Paper

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