Chinese Optics Letters, 2008, 6 (8): 583, Published Online: Sep. 2, 2008
Side-pumped short rectangular Nd-doped phosphate glass fiber lasers Download: 538次
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Abstract
Watt-level short fiber lasers side-pumped through fiber-to-waveguide couplers are demonstrated. The fiber lasers are fabricated from Nd-doped phosphate glass with large numerical aperture of 0.2 and rectangular cross section of 1.5\times0.5 (mm). Single transverse mode output is achieved by the gain-guiding effect. Average power of 1 W is generated from a 4.0-cm-long fiber laser with a slope efficiency of 10%.
Yulong Tang, Yong Yang, Jianqiu Xu. Side-pumped short rectangular Nd-doped phosphate glass fiber lasers[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2008, 6(8): 583.