Resonantly cladding-pumped Yb-free Er-doped LMA fiber laser with record high power and efficiency

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 5574-5578

  Zhang, Jun ^a   Fromzel, Viktor ^a   Dubinskii, Mark ^a  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERBIUM; FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; YTTERBIUM;

CO-DOPED; COMMERCIAL OFF THE SHELVES; CONTINUOUS WAVES; ER-DOPED; EYE-SAFE; HIGH-POWER; LARGE MODE AREA FIBER; POWER-SCALING; SINGLE TRANSVERSE MODES;

PUMPING (LASER);

EID: 79952581382     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.005574     Document Type: Article

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