Concentration dependence and self-similarity of photodarkening losses induced in Yb-doped fibers by comparable excitation

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 19340-19345

  Taccheo, Stefano ^a   Gebavi, Hrvoje ^a   Monteville, Achille ^b   Le Goffic, Olivier ^b   Landais, David ^b   Mechin, David ^b   Tregoat, Denis ^b   Cadier, Benoit ^c   Robin, Thierry ^c   Milanese, Daniel ^d   Durrant, Tim ^e  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b PERFOS   (France)

^c IXFiber SAS   (France)

^d POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^e Gooch and Housego ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURVE FITTING; SILICA; YTTERBIUM;

CONCENTRATION DEPENDENCE; CONCENTRATION RANGES; EXCITED IONS; EXPERIMENTAL CURVES; FITTING PARAMETERS; INDUCED LOSS; SELF-SIMILARITIES; SILICA FIBERS; STRETCHING PARAMETERS; YB-DOPED FIBERS;

FIBERS;

YTTERBIUM;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FLUORESCENCE; INFRARED RADIATION; INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICS;

AMPLIFIERS, ELECTRONIC; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FLUORESCENCE; INFRARED RAYS; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; YTTERBIUM;

EID: 80053283154     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.019340     Document Type: Article

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