Spectrum narrowing of high power Tm: Fiber laser using a volume Bragg grating

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 8937-8941

  Wang, Fei ^a,b   Shen, Deyuan ^b   Fan, Dianyuan ^b   Lu, Qisheng ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; LASER CLADDING; PUMPS;

DIFFRACTION LIMITED; HIGH-POWER; LAUNCHED PUMP POWER; OUTPUT POWER; REFLECTIVE MIRRORS; SLOPE EFFICIENCIES; SPECTRAL LINE WIDTH; VOLUME BRAGG GRATINGS;

PUMPING (LASER);

EID: 77952047876     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.008937     Document Type: Article

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