Optimizing the pumping configuration for the power scaling of in-band pumped erbium doped fiber amplifiers

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 13886-13895

  Lim, Ee Leong ^a   Alam, Shaif Ul ^a   Richardson, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COATINGS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ERBIUM; ERBIUM DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIERS; FIBER LASERS; PUMPS; QUENCHING;

ACTIVE FIBERS; CLADDING PUMPING; CO-DOPED; COATING ABSORPTION; COATING MATERIAL; CONCENTRATION QUENCHING; ERBIUM DOPED; ERBIUM ION; HIGH OUTPUT POWER; HIGH-POWER; IN-BAND; IN-FIBER; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; POWER-SCALING; PUMPING CONFIGURATIONS; SIMULATION MODEL;

FIBERS;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; DYE LASER; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; SOLID STATE LASER;

AMPLIFIERS, ELECTRONIC; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS, DYE; LASERS, SOLID-STATE;

EID: 84863773276     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.013886     Document Type: Article

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