Air-clad fibre laser with internal Bragg grating

John Canning, Stuart D. Jackson, Mattias L. Åslund, Nathaniel Groothoff, Brian Ashton, K. Lyytikäinen

Electronics Letters · 2005 · 18 citations · 2 references

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Abstract

An air-clad fibre laser using a Bragg grating written directly into the Yb3+ doped core as the end reflector is presented. For an unsaturated output power of 12 W and slope efficency of 34%, there is a saturated laser wavelength shift of approximately 0.4 nm.

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