Actively Q-switched 1.6-mJ tapered double-clad ytterbium-doped fiber laser

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 18, 2010, Pages 18543-18549

  Kerttula, Juho ^a   Filippov, Valery ^a   Chamorovskii, Yuri ^b   Golant, Konstantin ^b   Okhotnikov, Oleg G ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b INSTITUTE OF RADIO ENGINEERING AND ELECTRONICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PULSE REPETITION RATE; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; Q SWITCHING; YTTERBIUM;

ACTIVE MEDIUM; ACTIVELY Q-SWITCHED; AMPLIFIED SPONTANEOUS EMISSIONS; DOUBLE CLAD FIBER LASER; DOUBLE CLAD FIBERS; DOUBLE-CLAD; HIGH ENERGY PULSE; LOW REPETITION RATE; SINGLE-SHOT; YTTERBIUM-DOPED FIBER LASERS;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 77956372604     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.018543     Document Type: Article

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