High power Yb-doped photonic bandgap fiber oscillator at 1178 nm

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 14471-14476

  Fan, Xinyan ^a   Chen, Meishin ^a   Shirakawa, Akira ^a   Ueda, Ken Ichi ^a   Olausson, Christina B ^b   Lyngsø, Jens K ^b   Broeng, Jes ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^b NKT PHOTONICS A S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; PHOTONIC BANDGAP FIBERS; YTTERBIUM;

ALL FIBER; AMPLIFIED SPONTANEOUS EMISSIONS; BAND PASS; CUTOFF WAVELENGTHS; FILTERING EFFECTS; FINE ADJUSTMENTS; HIGH-GAIN; HIGH-POWER; LONG WAVELENGTH; OUTPUT POWER; PARASITIC LASING; SLOPE EFFICIENCIES; YTTERBIUM-DOPED;

FIBERS;

YTTRIUM;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; OSCILLOMETRY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY;

AMPLIFIERS, ELECTRONIC; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LIGHT; OSCILLOMETRY; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; YTTRIUM;

EID: 84863774020     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.014471     Document Type: Article

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