• 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