High-power widely tunable thulium fiber lasers

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 32, 2010, Pages 6236-6242

  McComb, Timothy S ^a,b   Sims, R Andrew ^a   Willis, Christina C C ^a   Kadwani, Pankaj ^a   Sudesh, Vikas ^a,c   Shah, Lawrence ^a   Richardson, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^c Quantum Tech Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; FIBER LASERS; POWER AMPLIFIERS; THULIUM;

ATMOSPHERIC PROPAGATION; LASER CONFIGURATION; MASTER OSCILLATOR POWER AMPLIFIER SYSTEMS; SINGLE OSCILLATORS; SLOPE EFFICIENCIES; THULIUM FIBER LASERS; VOLUME BRAGG GRATINGS; WAVELENGTH STABILIZATION;

FIBER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 78149422675     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.006236     Document Type: Article

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