Thermal effects in kilowatt all-fiber MOPA

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 15162-15172

  Fan, Yuanyuan ^a,b,c   He, Bing ^a,b   Zhou, Jun ^a,b   Zheng, Jituo ^a,b,c   Liu, Houkang ^a,b,c   Wei, Yunrong ^a,b   Dong, Jingxing ^a,b   Lou, Qihong ^a,b  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND FINE MECHANICS   (China)

^b Shanghai Key Laboratory of All Solid State Laser and Applied Techniques   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

A-THERMAL; ALL FIBER; DAMAGE-FREE; DOUBLE CLAD FIBERS; HIGH-POWER OPERATION; MASTER OSCILLATOR POWER AMPLIFIERS; OUTPUT POWER; PROPER DESIGN; PUMP LIGHT; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE RISE; YTTERBIUM-DOPED;

YTTERBIUM;

GLASS FIBER; METAL;

ALGORITHM; AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; OSCILLOMETRY; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURFACE PROPERTY; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

ALGORITHMS; AMPLIFIERS, ELECTRONIC; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; METALS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; OSCILLOMETRY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 79961050777     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.015162     Document Type: Article

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