Photodarkening and photobleaching of an ytterbium-doped silica double-clad LMA fiber

Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007, CLEO 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Boullet, J ^a   Manek Honninger I ^a   Cardinal, T ^b   Guillen, F ^b   Podgorski, M ^c   Ermeneux, S ^c   Bello Doua, R ^c   Salin, F ^c  

^a CENTRE LASERS INTENSES ET APPLICATIONS   (France)

^b INST CHIM MATIERE COND BORDEAUX   (France)

^c Electro Scientific Industries Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE-CLAD; LASING PROPERTIES; TEMPORAL BEHAVIOUR; YTTERBIUM-DOPED;

SILICA; YTTERBIUM;

PHOTOBLEACHING;

EID: 82955249895     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CLEO.2007.4453532     Document Type: Conference Paper

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