Feasibility study of Yb:YAG-derived silicate fibers with large Yb content as gain media

Optical Materials

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1294-1298

  Dragic, Peter D ^a   Ballato, John ^b   Hawkins, Thomas ^b   Foy, Paul ^b  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b AMRL   (United States)

Author keywords

Aluminum; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber lasers; YAG; Ytterbium; Yttrium

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); FIBER LASERS; GLASS; OPTICAL FIBERS; STIMULATED BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; YTTERBIUM; YTTERBIUM COMPOUNDS; YTTRIUM; YTTRIUM ALUMINUM GARNET;

ALUMINOSILICATE MATERIALS; BACKGROUND LOSS; COMPOSITIONAL UNIFORMITY; FEASIBILITY ANALYSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; SILICATE FIBERS; SPECTROSCOPIC MEASUREMENTS; STIMULATED BRILLOUIN SCATTERING (SBS);

FIBER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 84862217593     PISSN: 09253467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optmat.2012.02.019     Document Type: Article

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