A high efficiency architecture for cascaded Raman fiber lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 7148-7155

  Supradeepa, V R ^a   Nichsolson, Jeffrey W ^a   Headley, Clifford E ^a   Yan, Man F ^a   Palsdottir, Bera ^b   Jakobsen, Dan ^b  

^a OFS LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b OFS   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; EFFICIENCY; FIBER LASERS; PUMPING (LASER);

CASCADED AMPLIFIERS; MAXIMUM OUTPUT POWER; MULTIWAVELENGTH; OUTPUT POWER; RAMAN FIBER LASERS; RAMAN RESONATOR; STOKES WAVELENGTH; YB-DOPED FIBER LASERS;

QUANTUM EFFICIENCY;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FIBER OPTICS; LASER; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LASERS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN;

EID: 84875733786     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.007148     Document Type: Article

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