A high-efficiency ytterbium-doped fiber amplifier designed for interplanetary laser communications

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Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Spellmeyer, Neal W ^a   Caplan, David O ^a   Robinson, Bryan S ^a   Sandberg, David ^a   Stevens, Mark L ^a   Willis, Matt M ^a   Gapontsev, Denis V ^b   Platonov, Nikolai S ^b   Yusim, Alexander ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b IPG Photonics Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); FIBER AMPLIFIERS;

AVERAGE POWER; ELECTRICAL-TO-OPTICAL CONVERSIONS; HIGH-EFFICIENCY; HIGH-RELIABILITY; MARS LASER COMMUNICATION; WAVE FORMS; YTTERBIUM AMPLIFIERS; YTTERBIUM-DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIERS;

YTTERBIUM;

EID: 84899072560     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21622701     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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