Single-crystal fiber lasers

Abstract

Essentially all fiber lasers in use today are made of glass. These glass structures normally involve a double-clad structure in which the core glass has been doped with a variety of rare-earth ions notably ytterbium which yields ytterbium-doped fiber lasers (YDFL). Yet there are some limitations to power scaling of glass fiberlasers which result from laser induced damage to the small cores, nonlinear effects such as stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS), and thermal loading.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 18, 2018
Accession Number
AD1064059

Entities

People

  • James A. Harrington

Organizations

  • Rutgers University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Absorption Spectra
  • Diffraction
  • Diffusion Coefficient
  • Electro-Optics
  • Equations
  • Fiber Optics
  • Geometry
  • Glass Fibers
  • Laser Applications
  • Laser Beams
  • Laser Induced Fluorescence
  • Lasers
  • Materials
  • Optical Absorption
  • Optics
  • Scattering
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Materials Science and Engineering.
  • Optical Physics and Photonics.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy