Passively Q-switched Ytterbium and Chromium all-fibre laser

2012/09/14 by Dussardier, Bernard, Maria, Jerome, Peterka, Pavel
#FOS: Physical sciences #Optics (physics.optics)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1209.3222

Abstract

A chromium-doped saturable absorber fibre stabilizes an otherwise spontaneously chaotic ytterbium- doped fibre laser. This original passively Q-switched all-fibre laser produces sustained and stable trains of smooth pulses at high repetition rate.

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