A new vision of photodarkening in Yb 3+-doped fibers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8257, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Peretti, Romain ^a,c   Gonnet, Cédric ^b   Jurdyc, Anne Marie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b Draka Comteq France SAS   (France)

^c ECOLE CENTRALE DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

Photodarkening; Tm upconversion; Yb doped fiber

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVES; DOPED FIBER; DOPING MATERIALS; HIGH POWER FIBER LASERS; INFRARED BEAMS; LASER EFFICIENCY; LASER OPERATIONS; PARTS-PER-BILLION; PHOTO DARKENING EFFECTS; RARE EARTH DOPED MATERIALS; UP-CONVERSION; UV EMISSIONS; UV-DEFECTS; VISIBLE AND NEAR INFRARED; YB-DOPED FIBERS; YTTERBIUM-DOPED;

COLOR CENTERS; DEFECTS; FIBER LASERS; LASERS; PHOTOCHROMISM; THULIUM; YTTERBIUM;

IMPURITIES;

EID: 84859986109     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.914613     Document Type: Conference Paper

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