Highly efficient cladding-pumped fibre laser based on an ytterbium-doped optical fibre and a fibre Bragg grating

Journal Article · Wed Jun 30 00:00:00 EDT 1999 · Quantum Electronics (Woodbury, N.Y.)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1070/QE1999V029N06ABEH001520· OSTI ID:21440365

Kurkov, Andrei S; Karpov, V I; Medvedkov, O I; Dianov, Evgenii M; Vasil'ev, Sergei A; Paramonov, Vladimir M; Protopopov, V N ^[1]; Laptev, A Yu; Gur'yanov, A N; Umnikov, A A; Vechkanov, N I ^[2]; Artyushenko, V G; Frahm, J ^[3]

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1. Fiber Optics Research Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow (Russian Federation)
2. Institute of Chemistry of High-Purity Substances, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhnii Novgorod (Russian Federation)
3. Advanced Photonic Systems, APhS GmbH, Berlin (Germany)

Ytterbium-ion-doped double-clad optical fibres were developed. The differential quantum efficiency of a diode-pumped fibre laser, fabricated on the basis of such optical fibres with a fibre Bragg grating, was 90%. (lasers)

• OSTI ID: 21440365
• Journal Information: Quantum Electronics (Woodbury, N.Y.), Vol. 29, Issue 6; Other Information: DOI: 10.1070/QE1999v029n06ABEH001520; ISSN 1063-7818
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS
SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY
BRAGG REFLECTION
DOPED MATERIALS
ELECTRICAL PUMPING
GRATINGS
LASERS
OPTICAL FIBERS
QUANTUM EFFICIENCY
YTTERBIUM
YTTERBIUM IONS
CHARGED PARTICLES
EFFICIENCY
ELEMENTS
FIBERS
IONS
MATERIALS
METALS
PUMPING
RARE EARTHS
REFLECTION