DocumentCode
610700
Title
Investigation of self pulsing in Ytterbium-doped high power fiber amplifiers
Author
Panbiharwala, Y. ; Sathish Kumar, C. ; Venkitesh, Deepa ; Srinivasan, Bama
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electr. Eng., IIT Madras, Chennai, India
fYear
2012
fDate
9-12 Dec. 2012
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
3
Abstract
We investigate self-pulsing phenomena in Yb-doped fiber amplifiers operated in the Master Oscillator Power Amplifier (MOPA) configuration and find that the pulsing happens due to saturable absorption in certain sections of the doped fiber.
Keywords
optical fibre amplifiers; optical saturable absorption; oscillators; power amplifiers; ytterbium; MOPA; master oscillator power amplifier; saturable absorption; self-pulsing phenomena; ytterbium-doped high power fiber amplifiers;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Fiber Optics and Photonics (PHOTONICS), 2012 International Conference on
Conference_Location
Chennai
Print_ISBN
978-1-4673-4718-1
Type
conf
Filename
6545717
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