High power ytterbium fiber lasers at extremely long wavelengths by photonic bandgap fiber technology

Optical Fiber Technology

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 449-457

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^b NKT PHOTONICS A S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Amplified spontaneous emission; Distributed filtering; Fiber amplifier; Fiber laser; Photonic bandgap fiber; Ytterbium

Indexed keywords

ENERGY GAP; FIBER AMPLIFIERS; FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; FILTRATION; RARE EARTH-DOPED FIBERS; RARE EARTHS; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; YTTERBIUM;

AMPLIFIED SPONTANEOUS EMISSIONS; DISTRIBUTED FILTERING; LONG WAVELENGTH; OUTPUT POWER; POWER-SCALING; SLOPE EFFICIENCIES; YB DOPED FIBER LASER; YTTERBIUM FIBER LASER;

PHOTONIC BANDGAP FIBERS;

EID: 78649714700     PISSN: 10685200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yofte.2010.09.003     Document Type: Article

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