Modeling of CW Yb-doped fiber lasers with highly nonlinear cavity dynamics

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 8394-8405

  Turitsyn, S K ^a   Bednyakova, A E ^b,c   Fedoruk, M P ^b,c   Latkin, A I ^b,c   Fotiadi, A A ^d   Kurkov, A S ^e   Sholokhov, E ^e  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES   (Russian Federation)

^c NOVOSIBIRSK STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^d IOFFE INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^e PROKHOROV GENERAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; YTTERBIUM;

CONTINUOUS WAVE; FIBRE BRAGG GRATING; HIGHLY NONLINEAR; LASER OUTPUT; POWER EFFICIENCY; POWER LEAKAGE; ROUND TRIP; SPECTRAL BROADENING; SPECTRAL SHAPES; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK; THEORETICAL PREDICTION; YB-DOPED FIBER LASERS;

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS;

YTTERBIUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; REPRODUCIBILITY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LASERS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; YTTERBIUM;

EID: 79955440754     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.008394     Document Type: Article

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