Gain-switching of a fiber laser: Experiment and a simple theoretical model

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7721, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Petkovsek R ^a   Agrež, Vid ^a   Bammer, F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Fiber lasers; Gain switching; Rate equations

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FIBERS; CONTROL UNIT; DOUBLE-CLAD; END-PUMPED; FILM REMOVAL; GAIN SWITCHING; GAIN-SWITCHED; INNER CLADDING; ION DOPING; LASER LEVEL; MAIN PULSE; MICRO PROCESSING; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PEAK POWER; PUMPING DIODES; PUMPING POWER; RATE EQUATIONS; RATE-EQUATION MODELS; REPETITION RATE; SIMPLE SYSTEM; THEORETICAL MODELS;

DOPING (ADDITIVES); FIBER AMPLIFIERS; FIBERS; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; PUMPING (LASER); PUMPS; YTTERBIUM;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 77957883156     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.854679     Document Type: Conference Paper

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