DocumentCode
1261121
Title
Losses in fibre laser cavities
Author
Morkel, P.R. ; Farries, M.C. ; Payne, D.N.
Author_Institution
Southampton Univ., UK
Volume
24
Issue
2
fYear
1988
fDate
1/21/1988 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
92
Lastpage
93
Abstract
A passive cavity ring-down technique has been used to measure the intrinsic losses of a fibre laser cavity. The results show that very low cavity losses can be obtained using conventional mirrors butted to the fibre. Optimum output coupling for a typical cavity intrinsic loss is derived
Keywords
fibre optics; laser cavity resonators; optical fibres; optical losses; solid lasers; butted mirrors; fibre laser cavities; intrinsic losses; optimum output coupling; passive cavity ring-down technique;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Electronics Letters
Publisher
iet
ISSN
0013-5194
Type
jour
Filename
5526
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