Single-frequency ytterbium doped photonic bandgap fiber amplifier at 1178 nm

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 19, 2012, Pages 21044-21052

  Chen, Mingchen ^a   Shirakawa, Akira ^a   Fan, Xinyan ^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 AMPLIFIERS; PHOTONIC BANDGAP FIBERS;

BRILLOUIN GAIN; OUTPUT POWER; PARASITIC LASING; SINGLE-FREQUENCY; YTTERBIUM-DOPED;

YTTERBIUM;

EID: 84866244342     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.021044     Document Type: Article

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