Seeded erbium/ytterbium co-doped fibre amplifier source with 87W of single-frequency output power

We report a highly efficient cladding-pumped Er/Yb-doped large-core fibre amplifier, generating up to 87 W of single-frequency continuous-wave output at 1563 nm with a good beam quality (M2 ~ 1.7) in a master oscillator power amplifier configuration. The overall optical power conversion efficiency w...

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Main Authors: Jeong, Y. (Author), Sahu, J.K (Author), Richardson, D.J (Author), Nilsson, J. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2003.
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